Hutchinson House
National Register Listing
Street Address:
7666 Point of Pines Road, Edisto Island, SC (Charleston County)
NRHP Nomination Form
Additional Documentation
Record Number:
S10817710151
Description and Narrative:
Hutchinson House is a rare surviving physical representation of local freedpeople’s post-Civil War community-building, and one of the earliest and the most elaborate extant examples of the freedmen house typology on Edisto Island. It was built by Henry Hutchinson, who was born enslaved on Edisto Island in 1860, and whose family became emblematic of the financial stability and success freedpeople hoped to attain in the Lowcountry after the American Civil War. At the same as it is reflects typologies and construction methods representative of Charleston County freedmen’s houses—through its dormered roof, raised foundation, and wood frame construction—Hutchinson House is also an unusually large and highly ornamented example, with its T-plan, additional rooms, wraparound porch featuring scrollwork ornament, and painted interior wood paneling. Hutchinson House is a c. 1885 one-and-a-half-story wood frame dwelling set on brick piers. The side gable metal roof features front and rear dormers. A wraparound porch supported by treated, hand hewn logs wraps around the façade and sides. The porch features wooden Tuscan columns and slender Victorian turned balustrades. The house is clad in weatherboard siding and features six-over-six, single hung wood sash windows. The windows and dormers are symmetrically spaced on the façade and rear of the house. Saw-cut Folk Victorian verge boards ornament the gable ends of the house, the eaves, the dormers, and the wrap-around porch. The interior walls and ceilings are clad in original beadboard and horizontally oriented wood paneling. The house has vernacular Victorian mantles in the downstairs parlors and original pine flooring throughout. The house underwent a comprehensive restoration between 2017 and 2025, which included the reconstruction of the rear bay and wraparound porch. Listed in the National Register May 5, 1987. Additional Documentation approved September 26, 2025.
Period of Significance:
circa 1885 – 1949
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Ethnic Heritage: Black;Social History
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
1987-05-05
Date of Boundary Increase:
No Boundary Increase
Location:
Charleston County;Edisto Island
