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Celebrate the season with a candlelight tour of the Nathaniel Russell House, where Charleston’s post-colonial elite marked the holidays in 1808. New for 2025, we're highlighting the Russell House the week before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Tickets required, four tours each night.
New for 2025, we're illuminating the Nathaniel Russell House for the holiday candlelight tours right before the Thanksgiving holiday, to highlight holiday traditions in post-colonial Charleston, and those that made it possible. Four tours each night, beverage included.
Celebrate the holidays as Charleston’s elite did with a candlelight tour of the Aiken-Rhett House. In the 1820s, formal dinners and family gatherings reflected the wealth and status of families whose fortunes were tied to plantation agriculture.By candlelight, visitors can experience how the antebellum elite marked the holiday season with elegance, display, and family tradition in one of Charleston’s most iconic homes.
As an exclusive benefit for our Easement and Covenant Homeowners, HCF is offering a series of educational sessions to help navigate topics and issues that face owners of historic properties each day. In the first of three programs, join us for the first topic: insurance!
Historic Charleston Foundation is partnering with Bloomberg and the City of Charleston to help launch the Future of Livability and Responsible Tourism Initiative at a public forum on May 20th at The Charleston Museum. Open to the community, space is limited. Registration encouraged.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
'Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while touring the house illuminated by candlelight.
'Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while touring the house illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
‘Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while enjoying the c.1808 historic house museum illuminated by candlelight.
'Tis the season! Learn about the 19th century holiday traditions and how the Russell family and their enslaved workers would have observed the holidays while touring the house illuminated by candlelight.
The third program of the four-part series, dive deeper into the research of Dr. Chantel White's research and her discoveries about the lives of the enslaved in Charleston.
In the first of a four-part series, join HCF and speaker, Christian Sottile, AIA, at the American College of the Building Arts to learn more about Courier Square.
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