Drayton Hall - near Charleston S.C.
Drayton Hall, 9 miles northwest of downtown Charleston on River Road, was one of the highlights of our recent road trip. It is the oldest surviving example of Georgian Palladian archicture in the U.S. The privy building seated 7. Think about it. There still is no indoor plumbing and the house was occupied into the 21st century. The last family member dropped extension cords from the nearby visitors building to run her refrigerator. The well was a more recent addition that came after the rice fields had long gone. The circles were a 3-tiered horse and buggy zone. There are no gardens to visit ... yet because the Trust is taking its time to study and reconstruct the grounds to be historically accurate and the money to do large scale projects is being raised. from the website - Through the centuries, both the house and landscape have evolved, and while the house has remained substantially intact, the landscape has been transformed by hurricanes, earthquakes, wars...