Drayton Hall (Charleston, South Carolina)

 museum, mansion / manor house / villa, 1740s construction, U.S. National Historic Landmark

3380 Ashley River Road
Charleston, SC 29414
(843) 769-2600
www.draytonhall.org/

Drayton Hall, in the Carolina "Low Country" near Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most handsome examples of Palladian architecture in North America.
The house was built for John Drayton, using both free and slave labor, dated through dendrochronology to c. 1747. The seven-bay double pile plantation house stands in a 630-acre (2.5 km2) site that is part of the plantation based on indigo and rice. Drayton Hall is the only plantation house on the Ashley River to survive the American Revolution and Civil War intact. Seven generations of Drayton heirs preserved the house in all but original condition, though the flanking outbuildings have not survived: an earthquake destroyed the laundry house in 1886 and a hurricane destroyed the kitchen in 1893.
www.dendrochronology.com/drayx1.html