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The morning of February 27th, 1980 dawned cold and clear, with temperatures below freezing. Stephen Wood drove for miles that morning in the dappled sunlight streaming through the live oak…
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A few years ago, a structural engineer informed us that at Drayton Hall, we have “highly mobile” soils. We filed that away under “interesting trivia engineers need to know” until…
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by Trish Smith, Curator of Historic Architectural Resources The year is 1492, and the writing is on the wall for the Venetian Republic. For centuries, their strategic location at the…
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On Friday, June 16, 2017, Drayton Hall was honored to receive the South Carolina Historic Preservation Stewardship Award for the momentous Portico Rehabilitation Project, which was completed last spring. Our…
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by Carter C. Hudgins, President and CEO Drayton Hall welcomed Hurricane Matthew to the Lowcountry with secured windows, barricaded doors and a decade of preventative tree maintenance that resulted in…
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Each year since 2005, Drayton Hall has awarded the Wood Family Fellowship to a rising professional in the field of archaeology, architectural history and conservation, landscape studies or collections management.…
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3380 Ashley River Road
Charleston, SC 29414
Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, (gate closes at 3:30 pm). The gate will accept no cash transactions.
