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Miles Brewton House (c.1769)One of the finest Georgian residences in America, this house was constructed by slave trader Miles Brewton at a rumored cost of 8,000 pounds. The ornate designs in the cornice and door surround are the work of English woodcarvers; the two-story portico and the elliptical fanlight over the door are among the earliest in the country...When Susan Pringle Frost, principal founder of the Preservation Society and a Brewton descendant lived here as child, the floor of the portico was still stained with her brother Robert's blood. The Confederate Captain Pringle was mortally wounded by a shell fragment at nearby Morris Island and when his brothers, who also served at the local fortifications, brought his body home it bled on the porous stone. The house remains in the family. |