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Built in 1803, is one of Charleston's finest examples of Adam style architecture.  The house was designed by Gabriel Manigault for his brother Joseph.  Both men were lowcountry rice planters of considerable means.  Gabriel Manigault was educated abroad in Geneva and London and owned an extensive library on architecture.  Gabriel was considered by many to be the first Charleston architect in the modern sense of the term, in that he prepared designs which were executed by a builder.  The Manigault House is registered as a National Historic Landmark and is owned and maintained by the Charleston Museum.

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This federal style house was built in 1825 by Charles Edmondston, a prominent merchant and wharf owner.  Thirty years later it was purchased by Charles Alston, a wealthy rice planter.  The house's grandeur and elegance is typical of the homes built along Charleston's waterfront.  The first two floors are open to the public, operated by the Middleton Place Foundation.

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Today's Middleton Place is all that remains of what was once a three-part residential complex, consisting of a main house and a dependency building, or flanker, on either side.  The main house, which dates back to the late 1730s is now in ruins, and was the home of John Williams.  Mary, his daughter, in 1741 married Henry Middleton, a wealthy young planter.  The house and surrounding 200 acres were part of her bridal dowry.  Middleton began construction of the gardens, which took the work of 100 slaves laboring seasonally for ten years to complete.  In 1755 he added the two-story north and south flankers.  On February 22, 1865, a foraging party from the 56th New York Volunteers, part of General Sherman's army, looted and burned Middleton Place.  The main house and north flanker were almost completely destroyed, their fragile walls leveled twenty years later in the Great Earthquake of 1886.  The south flanker was less damaged and William Middleton was able to restore and enlarge it in the 1870s as the family residence.  Open to the public since February, 1975, the Middleton Place Museum displays a collection of family furniture, paintings, silver, porcelain and books that give meaning to the story of life at Middle Place.

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It began nearly 220 years ago when a wealthy Charleston family willed land to the town of Charleston to be used as a public market.  Built in 1847, near the waterfront, the building has survived tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, and a major earthquake.
The Market is used by the Daughters of the Confederacy for the preservation of articles connected with the War Between the States.  Today there are a total of four buildings with hundreds of vendors selling an assortment of wares.  The market is one of the most popular places to visit in Charleston.