{{short description|Historic house in South Carolina, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Joye Cottage | nrhp_type = | image = Joye_Cottage.jpg | caption = | location = 463 Whiskey Rd. and 129 1st Ave., Aiken, South Carolina | coordinates = {{Coord|33.55352|-81.72379|type:landmark_region:US-SC|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = South Carolina#USA | built = {{Start date and age|1897}} | architect = George H. Freeman | architecture = Prairie School, Georgian | added = September 29, 1980 | area = {{convert|5.0|acre}} | refnum = 80003651<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

'''Joye Cottage''' is one of the oldest, and largest winter retreats in Aiken, South Carolina.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | last = Wells | first = John |author2=Suzanne Pickens |author3=Martha Walker | title = Joye Cottage | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = July 9, 1980 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/aiken/S10817702012/S10817702012.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 26 November 2012}}</ref><ref name= scdah>{{Cite web | title = Joye Cottage, Aiken County (463 Whiskey Rd. & 129 1st Ave., Aiken) |work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/aiken/S10817702012/index.htm | accessdate = 26 November 2012}}</ref> Most of the sprawling property dates to 1897, when William Collins Whitney purchased the property and remodeled it extensively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/aiken/S10817702012/|title=SCDAH|website=www.nationalregister.sc.gov}}</ref> It now includes a main house, a stable, a greenhouse, a laundry house, a couple of one-story cottages, and a squash court. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.<ref name = nris/>

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{{National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina}}

Category:Houses in Aiken County, South Carolina Category:Georgian architecture in South Carolina Category:Prairie School architecture in South Carolina Category:Houses completed in 1897 Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Aiken County, South Carolina Category:Buildings and structures in Aiken, South Carolina

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