The Brick House Ruins, also known as the Paul Hamilton House, are the standing brick walls and stuccoed ornament of a plantation house built around 1725 on Edisto Island in Charleston County, South Carolina, for the planter Paul Hamilton. The house combined American colonial building practice with French Huguenot design, using harder brick imported from Boston for its exterior walls and locally cut, long seasoned lumber inside, and its high pitched rooflines and heavy stucco decoration have been called unique among surviving buildings in the country. A fire destroyed the house's interior in 1929, leaving only the shell standing; the ruin was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970 and underwent stabilization work completed in 2018.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountSouth Carolina, United States 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
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1. Brick House Ruins (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1725)
completion_date/completed = 1725
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture of the period.
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A fire destroyed the house's interior in 1929, leaving only the shell standing; the ruin was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970 and underwent stabilization work completed in 2018.
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
The two-story house was constructed with exterior walls of brick imported from Boston, such brick being harder and denser than the local kind.
View the Source 2. Brick House Ruins (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: South Carolina, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: South Carolina, United States
Wikidata item Q4965920, property P131/P17 (location): South Carolina, United States
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