The Isaac Jenkins Mikell House is an imposing Roman Revival residence in the style of a grand Italian villa that was built in 1853–1854 by

Edisto Island Edisto Island is one of South Carolina's Sea Islands, the larger part of which lies in Charleston County, with its southern tip in Colleton County. Edisto Beach is in Colleton County, and the Charleston County part of the island is unincorpor ...

cotton planter and enslaver 1850 U.S. Federal Census-Slave Schedule Isaac Jenkins Mikell for his wife, Mary Martha Pope. The house should not be confused with

Peter's Point Plantation Peters Point Plantation is a historic structure located on Edisto Island, South Carolina. It was built by Isaac Jenkins Mikell in 1840 at the intersection of St. Pierre's Creek and Fishing Creek. It is located on the site General Lafayette us ...

, an Edisto Island plantation built in about 1840 by Isaac Jenkins Mikell which is also sometimes referred to as the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House. The southern facade (overlooking Montagu Street) is dominated by a pedimented portico with six columns with composite capitals carved from cypress and ornamented with rams' heads. In addition to the main house, there is a kitchen building and a separate coach house on the premises. A 1939 photograph shows the slave quarters. The house was bought in 1935 by the Charleston Free Library and served as a public library until the early 1960s, when it was sold and restored as a private residence. In 2008, the house sold for $4.8 million to Manhattan socialite Patricia Altschul. The house is frequently featured on the Bravo television reality show, ''

Southern Charm ''Southern Charm'' is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on March 3, 2014. The series chronicles the personal and professional lives of several socialites who reside in Charleston, South Carolina. The show focuses on t ...

;'' Altschul is the mother of one of the program's regular cast, filmmaker

Whitney Sudler-Smith Whitney Sudler-Smith (born June 2, 1968) is an American filmmaker, television director, and a classically trained guitarist. He is the creator and executive producer of Bravo's ''Southern Charm'', a reality docu-series about life in Charleston, ...

, who is also executive producer of the show. The house was listed on the

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in 2014.

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Houses completed in 1854 Houses in Charleston, South Carolina Greek Revival houses in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-NRHP-stub

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