Pinckney Mansion
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(Front) The Pinckney Mansion was a Colonial double house built c.1746 at this site, then a large waterfront lot known as Colleton Square. It is believed to have been designed by owner Charles Pinckney (c.1699-1758), a planter and Chief Justice of Provincial S.C. His wife Eliza Lucas (1722-1793) lived here after helping found colonial S.C.’s indigo industry.
Enslaved people and free workers, skilled and unskilled, built the house. Colonial governors leased the property 175369. (Reverse) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), a framer of the U.S. Constitution, was among the mansion’s residents. The house was one of the first in the U.S. with a Classical temple front façade.
Among the first Palladian villas in Charleston, it helped set a new trend of planters keeping their main dwelling in town instead of at the plantation. Also at the site was a graden and a long row of outbuildings, including slave quarters and stables. Pinckneys owned the house until it burned in 1861.
Sponsored by Eliza Lucas Pinckney Chapter NSDAR, 2019
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