1 and 6 Cane Garden QU, St. Croix, VI 00840

Cane Garden is an iconic historic estate, traditionally a sugar plantation, sitting on over 80 acres of pristine land with a little over half a mile of coastline on St. Croix's south shore.  The estate consists of a great house and three cottages. The impressive six-bedroom great house, built in 1784, was extensively remodeled in the 1820's in the classical style with grand Doric columns added on the northern portico as well as on the south. Richard Hampton Jenrette, noted preservationist, purchased the estate in1985 and lovingly restored Cane Garden to its former grandeur. Along with early 20 th Century photographs and research from Danish and St. Croix sources, Jenrette's team unearthed valuable architectural drawings from architect Herbert Nelthropp that also helped steer the rest