City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
137. Greater Summerville Chamber of Commerce
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (843) 873-8535, (866) 875-8535
Address: 402 North Main St.
Description: Day trippers to Summerville may first want to check in at the city’s chamber of commerce, located right on Main Street near Town Square. This green-roofed building serves as a mini welcome center with newcomer information, maps, brochures, and friendly advice. It is open Mon through Fri from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Sat from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sun 1 to 4 p.m.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 100 East Doty Ave.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 316 West Carolina Ave.
141. Gelzer Brothers House (ca. 1852)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 413 Sumter Ave.
Description: This home, like several others on this end of Sumter Avenue, was actually built facing a street that’s no longer in existence. You’re viewing what was originally the rear of this very early Summerville dwelling.
142. Brailsford-Browning House (ca. 1830)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 408 Sumter Ave.
Description: Here is an example of early Summerville architecture in which the house is lifted high off the ground to catch cool breezes. The lower area was once open; the present enclosure was added after 1915. Early records show this house was occupied in 1838 by a Dr. W. M. Brailsford, when it was listed among 29 houses in the growing village of Summerville.
143. Brownfield House (ca. 1875)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 230 Sumter Ave.
Description: This residence belonged to the Brownfield family, who built on the site of a defunct boarding school for girls known as the Brownfield Academy. In 1893, the school was advertised as “particularly desirable for Northern young ladies with impaired health who would probably be successful in following their studies in this health-giving climate.”
144. Buckheit House (ca. 1884)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 317 Sumter Ave.
Description: Existing documentation indicates that, in 1862, a baker from Charleston named Philip Buckheit bought this land. Perhaps because of the war, he didn’t actually build his house until more than two decades later.
145. Disher House (ca. 1862)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 303 Sumter Ave.
Description: Deeds for this property go back to 1862 when Robert W. Disher bought 2 acres of land from A. W. Taylor. Disher’s house (and presence) on this site must have been noteworthy, as the adjoining road, now called Charleston Street, was formerly known as Disher Street.
146. William Prioleau House (1896)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 302 Sumter Ave.
Description: Built by Charleston druggist William H. Prioleau, this is one of the many Victorian homes built during the big health resort boom around the turn of the century. The lacy architectural style is called Queen Anne.
147. Kinloch House (ca. 1861)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 233 Sumter Ave.
Description: This house was built in 1861, shortly after the shelling of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, on land formerly owned by the Rev. Philip Gadsden, first rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
148. Purcell House (ca. 1820)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 224 Sumter Ave.
Description: Records date this home to between 1811 and 1828. The architecture is typical of the very early hunting lodges or summer homes built by nearby planters.
149. Preference (ca. 1885)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 223 Sumter Ave.
Description: Note the West Indian character of this home. The broad porches and high elevation would have offered friendly shade and cool breezes to residents and guests. Although the exact date of construction is unknown, this handsome Victorian house is thought to have been built for one Mary Webb around 1885. As for the unusual name, it seems that after the Civil War, many summer homes took on the names of the owner’s former plantations, most of which were lost or sold after the conflict.
150. Charles Boyle House (ca. 1888)
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 220 Sumter Ave.
Description: This house was built by Summerville attorney Charles Boyle around 1888 on land that at one time straddled the Colleton-Berkeley county line.