“The Wadmalaw Island telephone system and post office were located at the plantation house.
For more than 100 years, Martins Point was the center of agricultural commerce on Wadmalaw with its own currency, store and school. Towles, a Georgia farmer, purchased 1,200 acres of planting and marsh land that is now Martins Point. The plantation has since been called Ladinwah, Bear-Bluff, Morton Town, and Point of Pines. In 1700, Landgrave Joseph Morton, the son of the first Royal Governor of Carolina, added the Jones tract to his 2,700 acre plantation known as Bears Bluff. The early history of Martins Point began in 1699 when the Lord Proprietors of the Carolina colony granted 200 acres on the North Edisto and Wadmalaw Rivers to John Jones, a gunsmith. According to Zillow, it has 5 bedrooms, 4,255 square feet, and sits on nearly 11 acres.Īccording to the Martins Point Plantation website: In this one of the front porch you can see the ceiling is painted blue, which is fitting for a gracious Southern home: It sits on a private lane and you can’t access the property without permission. Thanks to Natalie’s cousin David Towles, who shared these photos. They added the blue shutters for the movie and removed them after filming. It looked pretty much the same in the movie, as you can see below, but the pillars were replaced at some point: In the 1950s, after the exterior had been given a makeover, the house looked more like it does today: Francis Winfield Towles lived it it from 1880 until his death in 1927, so most people know it as his home.” -Natalie Towles Whiteman Francis Towles made the South Carolina history books: “He is rightfully called the father of the truck growing industry in the South, for it was he who first demonstrated the feasibility and profit in growing and shipping vegetables to outside markets.” He didn’t live in the house but for a few years before he died. “Francis’s father, Daniel Freeman Towles, had the house built, but he died mining phosphate in Charleston around 1880 and his body was never recovered from the mine. The filmmakers must have seen the historic photos because they recreated the original, second-story porch and all!
The “before” version of the house looks like the way the real one did when it was built. Here’s how it looked in the movie with some additional “wear” painted onto the exterior of the house: This screenshot from the DVD special features shows the facade filmmakers used to make it look run-down: During a later remodel, that was eliminated. The house originally had a second-story wraparound porch. But real estate records state the real plantation house dates to 1875. In the movie, Noah says the house was built in 1772. The original owner was her great-great-grandfather, Francis Winfield Towles: You can see that the pillars are different on the porch below, so I’m not sure where they filmed the scene above.Ī reader named Natalie wrote me about the history of the house. Noah created a room where Allie could paint, as requested:Īllie paints on a second-story porch outside her art room, but where is it? On the back of the house? He’s living there alone when Allie finally comes and sees the place. I believe the interior scenes of Noah’s house were filmed elsewhere. Noah’s house in real life is Martins Point Plantation on Wadmalaw Island.
The story is set in North Carolina, but most of the movie was shot in and around Charleston, SC. He took her requests seriously, blue shutters and all. I want a big old porch that wraps around the entire house.” And a room overlooking the river so I can paint. Noah pretty much single-handedly renovates the place and transforms it into this beaut (below):Īllie ( Rachel McAdams) told him, “I want a white house with blue shutters. You could say the house was a “fixer upper” when we first see it in the movie (above).
The Martins Point Plantation House in “The Notebook” Note: This post contains affiliate links that may earn me commission. Not only that, but she sent old photos showing how it’s changed since it was built in the 1800s. It’s hard not to swoon a little when Noah shows her the crumbling plantation house of his dreams and promises, “I’m gonna buy it one day and fix it up.”Ī reader whose family once owned the house on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina shared some of the history behind it with me. Ryan Gosling played Noah Calhoun, a poor boy courting a rich girl named Allie. It’s also a favorite with those of us who love houses! The Notebook isn’t just a movie for people who love Nicholas Sparks novels and tear-jerky romantic dramas.
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