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The city of Charleston is the location of 105 of these properties and districts, including 34 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately. Another property in Charleston was once listed but has been removed.
The large, neoclassical Simmons-Edwards House is a Charleston single house built for Francis Simmons, a Johns Island planter, about 1800. The house, located at 14 Legare St., Charleston, South Carolina, is famous for its large brick gates with decorative wrought iron. The gates, which were installed by George Edwards (who owned the house until ...
54 Hasell Street, Charleston 1712 House Pink House: 17 Chalmers Street, Charleston 1712 House The Powder Magazine: 79 Cumberland Street, Charleston 1713 The Powder Magazine of South Carolina State's oldest public building. Daily visitation hours - www.PowderMag.org Mulberry Plantation: U.S. 52, Moncks Corners 1714 House Hanover House
The Branford-Horry House is located at 59 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina. [2] It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1] The house is unusual for its piazza, which extends over the public sidewalk. [3] The three-story house of stuccoed brick has Georgian interiors.
The Miles Brewton House is a National Historic Landmark residential complex located in Charleston, South Carolina. It is one of the finest examples of a double house (a reference to the arrangement of four main rooms per floor, separated by a central stair hall) in Charleston, designed on principles articulated by Andrea Palladio .
The house is considered to be the best preserved complex of antebellum domestic structures in Charleston. [4] It was the home of William Aiken, Jr., a governor of South Carolina, and before that the home of his father, the owner of South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, William Aiken. [5] Gov. William Aiken House
The Governor John Rutledge House is a historic house at 116 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Completed in 1763 by an unknown architect, it was the home of Founding Father John Rutledge, a Governor of South Carolina and a signer of the United States Constitution. [3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. [2] [4]
During the early 19th century, Charleston's landowners built and expanded their houses in town and along the Ashley River. While the Horlbeck brothers have received credit for "building" many houses and public spaces in downtown Charleston using the brick from their plantations, enslaved workers had made the bricks and others accomplished the ...