Whim Museum

One of the most prosperous sugar plantations of the 17th,18th and 19th centuries, Whim Plantation also processed sugar cane from nearby plantations. Records dating back to 1751 give the original owner as Patrick Donough. Christopher Mac Evoy, Jr., a Danish sugar planter who inherited the plantation from his Scottish father, enlarged the estate with the Whim Great House in 1794. After changing hands several times,

Whim became the property of the Virgin Islands Government and is operated as a museum by the St. Croix Landmarks Society. The Whim Great House and dependencies stand as a superb example of Danish neo-classicism as adapted for use in the West Indies. The site of an old slave quarters lies just north of the T- shaped complex and a working windmill stands as a monument to a vanished era of Caribbean history