Drayton Hall

Drayton Hall

The oldest unrestored plantation house in the United States. It was built sometime around 1738 in the Palladian style. Now it serves as a museum of plantations.

Aiken-Rhett House

Aiken-Rhett House

Historical city house that was built in 1820 by the merchant John Robinson, one of the best-preserved townhouse complexes in the United States. It contains also the historical slave quarters. Now here is a museum.

Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens

Boone Hall, the main building

One of the oldest existing plantations in the United States, founded in 1681. The stately plantation house was built in 1935-1936 in a Colonial Revival style. Stories about ghostly apparitions around the kiln of the plantation. A famous feature of the park is Avenue of Oaks – more than one kilometer long, gorgeous avenue of moss-covered oaks.

Auldbrass Plantation

Basin in Auldbrass Plantation

Historical plantation at Combahee River. The main complex of buildings was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1940-1951. The original architecture has been well preserved and once per two years can be accessed by the public.

Rainbow Row in Charleston

Rainbow Row in Charleston

A group of thirteen historical row houses that are colored in diverse bright pastel colors. The longest and most impressive cluster of Georgian row houses in the United States. Houses were built in the time period between 1741 and 1845.

Dock Street Theatre

Dock Street Theatre, Charleston

Hotel – theatre building in the historical center of Charleston. Constructed in 1809 and adorned with a wrought-iron balcony. This hotel was built on the site where the first theater building in the area of the United States was constructed in 1736. Reportedly a haunted place.

Antilia, Mumbai

Antilia

World’s tallest and most expensive personal house, 27 floors high skyscraper with unusual architecture, built in 2010.

Aga Khan Palace

Aga Khan Palace

Enormous, ornate palace, built in 1892. Now this is public building, mainly devoted to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.

Umaid Bhawan Palace

Umaid Bhawan Palace

Beautiful palace in Art Deco style, built in 1923 – 1943. One of the world’s largest private residences with 347 rooms. Built by Jodhpur royal family.

Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai

Enormous building of historic prestigious hotel, built in 1903. The building is designed in the Saracenic Revival style.