Drayton Hall will close at 1:30pm on Saturday, December 21, 2024. We will return to normal hours on Sunday, December 22.
Voted the Best Place to See by Condé Nast Traveler.
Voted the Best Place to See by Condé Nast Traveler.
L-R: Craig Bennett, Jr., Moby Marks, Trish Smith, Governor Henry McMaster
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 Curator of Historic Architectural Resources Trish Lowe Smith, who managed the portico project, accepted the award on Drayton Hall’s behalf. Bennett Preservation Engineering and Richard Marks Restoration were also honored for their work on the structural assessment and reconstruction of the iconic portico. Congrats to our fellow award recipients!
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…
Read MoreDrayton Hall Preservation Trust has been awarded the 2024 Prize for Excellence and Innovation from The Decorative Arts Trust. This award will help fund the conservation of the Great Hall…
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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
Open Wednesday - Monday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Closed on Tuesday (gate closes at 3:30 pm). The gate will accept no cash transactions.
