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To try
to list all the historic homes in Charleston County would require a website
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I will however, try to continue to add with correspondence to Surnames
featured
on site in hopes of helping fellow researchers through their quest.
Thanks...Jerri
Lynne
Historic
Homes
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48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston |
The house was built by John ROBINSON in 1817 as a simple double house. Governor AIKEN acquired the house in 1832 and remodled the home in Greek Revival Style to the expandation of 23 rooms seen today. Confederate General BEAUREGARD used the house as his Headquarters during his service in Charleston. Later, President Jefferson DAVIS was the guest of honor at a dinner when he visited Charleston in November 1863. The house is now owned by The Charleston Museum and is open to the public. |
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69 St.. Berre Street, Charleston |
The house was built by Thomas BENNETT, Jr., Governor of SC, 1820-1822. (He served several political offices prior to becoming governor.) The house was built in 1825 and it originally looked over the BENNETT rice plantation, mill ponds and saw mill. |
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59 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1751 by a wealthy planter, William BRANFORD. It is a fine example of a Georgian double house. The house's double piazzas were built in 1830 by BRANFORD's grandson, Elias HORRY, president of the SC Railroad and the College of Charleston. |
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27 King Street, Charleston |
Built between 1765 and 1769, at a cost of 8,000 sterling ($684,000). The Miles Brewton House is considered "one of the finest colonial town homes in America" It was built for Col. Miles BREWTON, Sr., (fought in the war against the Yemassee Indians in 1715) who was a very prominent figure in early Charleston history. The home reflects the height of the English fashion. It was so lovely that not one, but two, invading armies used it as headquarters. The High Georgian double house was first used by the British during their occupation of the city in the Revolutionary War, and again by Union Generals after the surrender of Charleston in the Civil War. |
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35 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house is believed to have been built in 1720 by the first Lieutenant Governor of SC, William BULL. His son, William was the first native South Carolinian to recieve a medical degree and like his father, also served as Lieutenant Governor. What is now known as Ladson Street was first cut from BULL land to create a lot for his son-in-law, John DRAYTON. |
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94 Church Street, Charleston |
The house was built between 1760-1765, by John COOPER, a leader in the Colonial government and patriot of the Revolution. From 1771-1799, Thomas BEE, an attorney, planter, delgate to the Continental Congress and US Judge, owned the home. Gov. Joseph ALSTON, who was married to Theodosia BURR, daughter of AaronBURR, Vice President of US under President Thomas JEFFERSON, came into ownership a few years later. In 1832, the house was chosen by the organizers of the "Nullification Movement."[The movement was designed to establish SC as a sovereign, self-governing state and to nullify the unpopular Tariff Act of 1828. The Act led the bloody Civil War during which the Alexander CHRISTIE family owned the house. |
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71 Church Street, Charleston |
The house was probably built between 1701-1715 (most likely closer to the later date).It is distinguished as being Charlestons oldest existing "single house". The home was built for Col. Robert BREWTON, son of Col. Miles BREWTON, Sr.. Robert was a wealthy wharf owner, milita officer and a Member of the Commons House of Assembly. Early records state that the house was built on "Towne Lott 57 granted December 1680." The title transfer at that time of 1701-1715 suggest that the house was built by a John COCK. It was acquired by Miles BREWTON, the elder, and occupied by Robert BREWTON, his son, after whom the house is named. Today it is a private residence, not open to public. The home was recently listed for sale at the cost of more than $1,600,000.00. |
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2 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The story is told that the wealthy banker George W. WILLIAMS placed $75,ooo.oo on a satin pillow as a wedding gift for his daughter Martha and Waring P. CARRINGTON in 1890. The young couple used the money to build this charming house. For their fifth wedding anniversary they were given tiffany windows.. CARRINGTON, wealthy in his own right, had a thriving jewelry business on King Street. The house is now enjoyed by many as a romantic Bed and Breakfast. |
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172 Tradd Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1836 by Alexander Hext CHISOLM, owner of Chisolm's Rice Mill It is a fine example of Greek Revival architecture with original marble imitated in hand-carved wood. The interior has a gracefully curving staircase, a mark of class and distinction in that era. |
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1 East Battery, Charleston |
The house was built by Thomas A. COFFIN about 1850. He sold it to Louis de SAUSSURE in 1858 and it is still referred as "The de SAUSSURE House." It is considered as having one of the finest locations in Charleston. |
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21 East Battery, Charleston |
The house was built in 1825 by Charles EDMONDSTON, a native of the Shetland Islands and a local wharf owner and merchant. Charles ALSTON purchased the home in 1838. After Charleston's surrender during the Civil War, the home was occupied by Union Major General Rufus SAXTON. Charles ALSTON's daughter, Susan Pringle ALSTON, was the last of his family to live in the home, passing away in 1921. Today the house is a museum, owned by the "Middleton Place Foundation." It is opened to the public. |
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15 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1770 by John EDWARDS, using cypress boards cut and beveled to resemble the impressive character of stone block. The large and unusual semicircular piazza was added by a later owner, George W. WILLIAMS, Jr., according to historical legend, in order to accommodate all the children of the Charleston Orphan House for ice cream socials. |
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631 East Bay, Charleston |
The house was built around 1832 by Henry F. FABER. Joshua WARD, a wealthy and famous rice planter, as well as SC's Lieutenant Governor, purchased the house from FABER. It was turned into a hotel for emancipated slaves when the Union troops occupied the city. The hotel failed and the house again became a private residence. |
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29 Legare Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1835 by the Rev. Paul Trapier GERVAIS, the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church on John's Island and author of a published pamphlet opposing secession. During the construction of his home GERVAIS, re-used the 1st floor of the previous house built on the site in 1788. |
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64 South Battery, Charleston |
The house was built sometime between 1772 and 1788 for William GIBBES, a merchant, shipowner and planter, who built a large wharf in front of the house. The home's garden was designed by Mrs. Washington A. ROEBLING, whose husband along with his father, John August ROEBLING, designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge in 1869-1883. |
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45 East Battery, Charleston |
The house was built on part of Lot No. 1 of the "Grand Modell", granted by the Lord Proprietors to Maurice MATHEWS and James MOORE in 1682. It was conveyed to James HARTLEY in 1757. HARTLEY's house did not survive and William SOMERSALL, his son-in-law, built the present dwelling sometime after the Revolution. SOMERSALL was a prosperous merchant and planter, originally from St. Kitt's. He served on the State Convention in 1788. The house eventually came into the possession of Wilmont G. DESAUSSURE, a Confederate General. |
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31 Legare Street, Charleston |
The
house was built in 1789
by Mrs. William [Hannah] HEYWARD.
It is of the Adamesque Style. Mrs. HEYWARD
was considered a sucessful rice planter and she was also a sister-in-law
of Thomas HEYWARD,
signer
of the Declaration of Independence. The house
at 31 Legare is said to be haunted by the ghost of her son,
(Look for story to be added soon_ under 'Ghost and Legends'). |
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18 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was built before 1803 by Nathaniel HEYWARD and sold to his half-brother Thomas HEYWARD, signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1858, the house was the home of James ADGER, operator of the first coastal steamship line in the United States. |
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114 Broad, Charleston |
The house was built by planter, Ralph IZARD in 1790, but remained unfinished until 1829 when it was purchased by Col. Thomas PINCKNEY, Jr., General Pierre G. T. BEAUREGARD used the house for headquarters during the Civil War, for five months in 1863, which time Confederate President Jefferson DAVIS was an honored quest. |
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9o Church Street, Charleston |
The house was built by Thomas LEGARE, a wealthy merchant, after 1752. Three and one-half stories tall the brick building is in the Georgian style and features a Regency piazza added in 1816 by George MACAULAY. The middle window on the first floor was a door [It is believed that the first floor was probably used as a shop or counting house] |
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266 St.. Margaret Street, Charleston |
Lowndes Grove was originally a plantation but the original home was destoried by fire during the Revolutionary War.(See Plantations below for info of original house) The present house was built in 1786 by George Abbot HALL on another part of the plantation. The present house is one of the most famous in Charleston. It served as the location of the 1901 Exhabition durig which President Teddy ROOSEVELT, sipped tea on its Veranda. The home is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. The home features a flying staircase rising to the third floor where there is also a glass ceiling. The home now operates as a Bed and Breakfast Inn. |
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350 Meeting Street, Charleston |
MANIGAULT is one of the oldest names in Charleston County history. Gabriel MANIGAULT was a talented amateur architect and he designed the home located at 350 Meeting Street for his brother Joseph in 1803. It is a three story brick that follows elegance and simplicity of the famed Scottish architect, Robert ADAMS. The house is now owned by The Charleston Museum and is open to the public. |
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94 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston |
The house was built by Isaac Jenkins MIKELL, a wealthy Edisto Island planter, for his third wife. It is a stately house that was built in the Italianate Villa Style. The empressive home features Ram's head capitals on its massive pillars. The interior is graced with a curving staircase and ornate plasterwork, which was in great demand at the time. In 1857, the house was described as "one of the most ambitious of the private dwellings in Charleston." In 1866, after the real estate values collapsed (because of the Civil War), the home was sold to merchant Edward WILLIS. It was also the home of Mayor John FICKEN and also served as the Charleston County Free Library from 1935 thru 1960. It is now a privately owned residence. |
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30 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was built about 1769 and is the typical early Georgian architecture and as legend states_its broad chimney was offered as a hiding place for German Hessian troops who deserted during the Redcoat Roundup following the Revolutionary War. The house was completed in 1770 by Col. Isaac MOTTE, a plantation owner and French Huguenot revoluntionary. |
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6 Gibbes Street, Charleston |
The house was built by Isaac PARKER in 1806. PARKER was a planter in St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish as well as a brickyard owner. Col. William DRAYTON remodeled the house in the Regency Style with winnings from the East Bay Lottery in 1820. |
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68 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1810 by John Cordes PRIOLEAU, a factor and planter. It was his house slave who warned his master of a plot by a free black man to instigate a slave uprising in the city. Because of this information thirty-four people were hanged and the revolt was aborted. Later, from 1855-1862 the home was used as a school by Madame Rosalie Acelie TANGO. In 1886, Dr. Charles U. SHEPARD, took up residence, using a small garden building as a laboratory for analytical chemistry. Dr. SHEPARD was also famous for his farm at Summerville, where he grew tea commercially and for experimentation. |
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70 Tradd Street, Charleston |
The house was built by Judge Robert PRINGLE in 1774 and still bears the placque stating his name and date of construction. PRINGLE, a wealthy merchant from Scotland, willed the home to his son John Julius PRINGLE, who served as Attorney General of South Carolina for 16 years and District Attorney for the state under PresidentWASHINGTON. |
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92 Broad Street, Charleston |
Not much is known about the house except that it was once owned by David RAMSAY, M.D.. A respectable psysician and historian, who was also deeply involved in the politics of the day. He served as a war surgeon, was the author of several published works on the history of Charleston and American History. He was murdered by a deranged patient in 1815. |
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5 East Battery, Charleston |
The house was built between 1847-1849 for John RAVENEL, a Huguenot planter and merchant. The earthquake of 1886 severly damaged the three story stuccoed brick home. RAVENEL's son-in-law, Elias Horry FROST, restored the structure. |
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117 Broad Street, Charleston |
Although built in 1760 by James LAURENS, the house is referred to as the Edward RUTLEDGE House. Rutledge was a signer of the Decl. of Ind.. He purchased the home from the LAURENS estate in 1788. An attorney, RUTLEDGE served as Gov. of SC in 1798. |
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14 Legare Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1800 by Francis SIMMONS, a John's Island planter. SIMMONS lived in this house while his wife resided at 131 Tradd Street, where he left her on their wedding day. (alsoreference under "Ghost & Legend"). The house is a three and one-half story Adamesque brick home with a high basement. |
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7 Meeting Street, Charleston |
The house was commissioned to be built in 1788 by Josiah SMITH, a prosperous merchant. SMITH was arrested and exiled to St. Augustine, Fla., by the British in 1780. After the Revolution he returned and once again became a successful merchant and banker. He sold the house in 1800 to Wilson GLOVER. |
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106 Tradd Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1772. Col. John STUART, Royal Commissioner of Indian Affairs. During the Revolution STUART participated as a Troy [British Sympathizer] which ended with his property being confiscated by patriots after the Revolution. |
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46 Tradd Street, Charleston |
The house was built in 1770 by James VANDERHORST. The three story stuccoed house has also been the home of the well known artist, Alfred HUTTY. |
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US Hwy 17, Charleston |
Boone Hall Plantation is a magnificent estate of 738 acres. It's avenue is lined by beautiful old oaks that were planted in 1743 by Captain Thomas BOONE. The plantation mansion is of the Georgian architecture. The original plantation also included nine slave cabins and a gin house for processing cotton. Used so extensively in motion picture and television filming, as well as in worldwide publications, it has become known as "America's Most Photographed Plantation." |
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Ashley River Road, Charleston County |
Drayton Hall was built between 1738 and 1742 on the banks of the Ashley River (right outside of Charleston) by John DRAYTON, whose father Thomas DRAYTON, had immgrated to Carolina from Barbados in 1679. It was built in the Georgian Palladian Style and was built to impress. It is the oldest surviving example of its architecture in the southern United States. Drayton Hall was not a producing plantation, but instead, the country estate where John DRAYTON, who owned many other plantations, lived. For 230 years and through six generations the DRAYTON family resided at the plantation. The last DRAYTON to spend time at the plantation was Charlotta DRAYTON (1884-1969), where is just used it as a summer retreat, spending a couple of weeks a year on the property. After her death, her two nephews, Charles and Francis DRAYTON inheriated the property and in 1974, the two brothers decided the best way to perserve Drayton Hall was to transmit it over to the National Trust for Historic Persavation. It is now open to the public. |
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266 St.. Margaret Street, Charleston |
Lowndes Grove Plantation was originally a plantation that consisted of 328 acres on the Ashley River, directly across from Charles Landing. The originial house was burned by the British troops during the Revolutionary War. The original plantation consisted of "The Grove" as it is called is and is landscaped by huge old live Oaks. It was the site of a duel between two generals, both wanting to be in charge of the South Carolina troops. The present home was built in 1786 by George Abbot HALL and was located on another part of the plantation. It is the only surviving Plantation on the Historic Peninsula. (See Historic Homes above for info of present house) |
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3550 Ashley River Road, Charleston |
Magnolia Plantation was built by Stephen FOX, a Barbadian that came to Charles Town to settle in the late 1600's. He required a tract of land along the Ashley River, which would later become Magnolia Plantation. FOX was the first in direct line of Magnolia Plantation's family ownership that has extended through 320 years. Stephen FOX's daughter, Ann, married Thomas DRAYTON, Jr. , (1708-1760) who had immgrated from Barbodas at the same time Stephen FOX had. Their son, John DRAYTON, was born at Magnolia Plantation in 1715 and who later served as Royal Judge and had built "Drayton Hall " Plantation in 1740. |
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Ashley River Road, Charleston |
Today's Middleton Place House is all that remains of the beautiful three-building Plantation that was the home of the distinguished MIDDLETON family. The original three-story main house of the plantation, now lies in ruins, dates to the late 1730's. It and 200 acres were part of the Dowery brought by Mary WILLIAMS to her marriage to Henry MIDDLETON in 1741. Henry immediately became establishing the gardens. In 1755 he built two additional buildings, located on each side of the main house. The northern building consisted of a Library of leather-bound books along with many paintings. It is believed that a Music Room may have also been located in this building. The southern building was a two-story structure that contained the Plantation office on the bottom floor and extra sleeping quarters on the top floor. In 1855 an attachment of Sherman's Army occupied the Plantation and on February 22, 1865 the Plantation was ransacked and its main house and northern building was burned beyond repair. The southern building less severely damaged by the attack was restored by the family in 1869-1870 for their residence.In the 1920's the present house was in the SMITH family (part of the MIDDLETON Family) and once again restored to meet the modern times. It was at this same time that the SMITHs undertook the grave task of restoring the garden, that was into a half-century of neglect. The property was passed to their grandson who began the Middleton Place Foundation in 1975. It is opened to the public. |
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Plantations
1860 list
of some plantations and their owners on the Islands of Johns,
Seabrook
and Kiawah, that were in the area during the 1864 Civil War
march of
the 112th New York Regiment. Some were burned and most
were vandalized.
(Source:
Elizabeth Stringfellow, Johns Island resident and historian)
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Near Old Plantation Road |
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LEGARE,
Solomon,
LEGARE,
Lydia B., LEGARE, James C. |
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burned on August 20, 1864 |
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ROPER, Benjamin Dart |
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ROPER, Micah Jenkins |
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ROPER, Jr. Benjamin Dart |
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BRYAN, Edward B. |
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Julia Grece ROPER |
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NEYLE, Mary Jenkins Roper |
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Near Legareville |
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ROPER,Sr., Mrs.Benjamin Dart |
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MATTHEW, M.D., Edwin andMATTHEW, Mrs. Benjamin |
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LEGARE, Solomon |
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Near Bohicket Road |
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SEABROOK, William |
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one burned |
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JENKINS, William E. |
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JENKINS, John W. |
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HOPKINSON, James |
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SEABROOK, George Washington |
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VANDERHORST, Arnoldus |
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This
page was last revised on 9/22/99
1999,
Jerri Lynne Smith, Charleston County Webmaster
Charleston
County, South Carolina, USA
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