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Every year, Drayton Hall closes its gates to the public so that our staff can work on the house and grounds. We are closed February 3-7 for house cleaning, preservation work, and grounds maintenance. Check out the photos below to see our progress so far.
Drayton Hall Interpreter Betsy is dusting some of the hard-to-reach spaces in the stair hall.
Interpreters Tara and Betsy check off completed tasks on their to-do list.
We use dental picks to clean the spaces between the floorboards.
Sweeping an 11,000-square-foot house is a tedious job, but you will hear no complaints from Tara!
A behind-the-scenes look at the attic of Drayton Hall. We clean the house from top to bottom, and that means we always start in the attic.
Betsy carefully dusts a door leading into a bedchamber on the second floor.
Eric dusts the Victorian louvered shutter blinds, removing any cobwebs.
Tara uses a dental pick to remove debris from the floorboards in the small yellow room on the first floor.
Betsy dusts a window seat in the small yellow room.
Preserving a house as old as Drayton Hall is both an art and a science. Take our work on the conservation of the decorative cast plaster ceiling in the Great…
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Hannah Truman is a graduate student completing her MS in the Clemson University Historic Preservation program. As the 2024 Riley Collections Fellow, Hannah documented nail holes, extant hanging…
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3380 Ashley River Road
Charleston, SC 29414
Drayton Hall's main house and landscape are open to the public daily from 9 am to 5:00pm* (gate closes at 3:30 pm). The gate will accept no cash transactions.
