Calhoun Mansion - Meeting Street - Charleston SC
by Frank J Benz
Title
Calhoun Mansion - Meeting Street - Charleston SC
Artist
Frank J Benz
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Photograph - Photograph
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1876 Calhoun Mansion, Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
When it was constructed the Calhoun Mansion was referred to as the handsomest private residence in the South. This beautiful and amazing house was built in 1876 and including the cost of the land this house cost 240,000.00 in Confederate currency.
The mansion is a baronial Italianate manor house and is celebrated as one of the great post civil Warm homes to be found on the Eastern Seaboard. This mansion is a 24,000 square foot structure, has 35 rooms, 14 foot ceilings, ornate plaster and wood trim, amazing chandeliers and 23 period fireplaces. There is a stairwell that reaches up to a 75 foot domed ceiling as well as a music room with a 45 foot covered skylight. The entrance hall top the mansion is 14 feet high, 14 feet wide and 65 feet in length.
After the owners death in 1903, the mansion went through a series of varying occupants and uses and gradually started to deteriorate until it was condemned in 1972. A Charleston native bought the property and spent 5,000,000.00 restoring this now once again gorgeous and historic building over a 25 year period. The home is open for tours and is absolutely amazing, the interior detail and appointments in this mansion will take your breath away.
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August 13th, 2014
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