Governor’s Mansion | South Carolina Public Radio
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"G" is for the Governor’s Mansion [established in 1869]Audio
"H" is for the Heyward-Washington House in Charleston [Built in 1772].Houses and Gardens
Many homes and gardens that have existed since colonial times in South Carolina. Many of these homes have been restored, reconstructed or maintained for visitors to view today.
Heyward-Washington House | South Carolina Public Radio
Drayton Hall | South Carolina Public Radio
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“D” is for Drayton Hall [Charleston County]. Established in 1738, Drayton Hall is a historic plantation located between the Ashley River and Ashley River road—about nine miles from Charleston. At the...
Plantation of St. Matthews | History of SC Slide Collection
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Far too many of South Carolina's historic buildings have met the fate of Peterkin Plantation of St. Matthews, which burned to the ground in a fire photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston around 1910...
Interior of a Mill Village Home | History of SC Slide Collection
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The interior of a mill village home in Spartanburg around 1920 is a marked contrast to the contents and design of the Victorian interiors of the wealthy (see Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era, Front...
Interior View of an Unidentified Columbia Living Room | History of SC Slide Collection
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An interior view of an unidentified Columbia living room, with an upright piano in the right corner, around 1900. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
Blondell Malone In Her Gervais Street Home | History of SC Slide Collection
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Blondell Malone, in what she describes as the "hall" of her Gervais Street home, around 1910. The paintings on the wall were her own. (For examples of external decoration of the period, see images 30...
Front Hall Of Camden's Mulberry Plantation | History of SC Slide Collection
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The front hall of Camden's Mulberry Plantation, with its beautiful interior curving stairway, did not escape the decorative impact of the Victorian era. (For examples of the external decoration of the...
Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era | History of SC Slide Collection
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The interior décor of the Victorian era reflected the consumer society that America had become by the late 19th century. Filled with elaborately designed "things" - objects of art as well as of use...
Bedroom Of This Rock Hill Home | History of SC Slide Collection
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The mother of the boys who lived in the bedroom of this Rock Hill home labeled the 1898 photograph of it (in her album "The Blue Room") and gave the cry of mothers everywhere who have told their...