{"id":26302,"date":"2014-10-06T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2014-10-06T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:30:39","slug":"charleston-historic-nathaniel-russell-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=26302","title":{"rendered":"Charleston: Historic Nathaniel Russell House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Getting ready to tour the Nathaniel Russell House<\/a> which is located near downtown Charleston. \u00a0 Nathaniel Russell moved to Charleston<\/a> when he was in his 20’s and began his career as a shipping merchant.\u00a0 His exportation of items such as rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo would go from Charleston to West Africa, New England, Asia, West Indies, England, Europe, South America and more.\u00a0 Around the time of the American Revolution he was also known to transport African slaves as well.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Russell married a Sarah Hopton who was the daughter of a wealthy merchant who was established before the American Revolution.\u00a0 They had two children, Alicia and Sarah.\u00a0 Later the house would owned by other people such as Governor Allston and once it was used as a school for the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy for over 30 years.\u00a0 When the Historic Charleston Foundation received the house they went to work restoring both it’s interior and architectural structure back to what it was like when Nathaniel Russell owned it.<\/p>\n

The Nathaniel Russell house contained beautiful rooms.\u00a0 There were many layers of paint, wallpaper, and more on the interior that had to be carefully striped away and be restored.\u00a0 Some of the fireplaces we saw in the house had as many as thirty layers of paint and the details were barely noticeable until they started carefully striping away all layers.\u00a0 Fascinating!\u00a0 The house has a huge beautiful spiral staircase that goes up three floors.\u00a0 Although, the house was very large especially for that time the stairs actually take up about half of the house.\u00a0 Every section of the house was built in a different shape from a square, oval, circle, etc….\u00a0 It was a gorgeous house meant for showing off wealth, not necessarily for the most effective use of space.\u00a0 They had beautiful gold and decorative wallpaper, mirrors, and more.\u00a0 The house had a pretty ballroom with a high ceiling and mirrors.\u00a0 It would have been amazing traveling back in time to see this house during it’s original glory.\u00a0 Most of the furniture pieces are not original, but are from that period of time.\u00a0 I am thankful for an opportunity to see a glimpse of this neat house.<\/p>\n

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Front of the Nathaniel Russell house.\u00a0 The picture was taken from the front sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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Part of the Nathaniel Russell gardens.<\/p>\n

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They do not allow pictures inside the house so here is a glimpse of the staircase, but it really doesn’t do it justice.\u00a0 Pretty amazing to see in person.<\/p>\n

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The side of the house near the gardens.\u00a0 This side you can see the circular shape, the second story with the balcony contains the beautiful mirrored ballroom.<\/p>\n

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If you look closely you can see the “NR” initials for Nathaniel Russell in the iron balcony.<\/p>\n

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Another house the girls and I toured in Charleston was the Nataniel Russell House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting ready to tour the Nathaniel Russell House which is located near downtown Charleston. \u00a0 Nathaniel Russell moved to Charleston when he was in his 20’s and began his career as a shipping merchant.\u00a0 His exportation of items such as rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo would go from Charleston to West Africa, New England, Asia, West Indies, England, Europe, South America and more.\u00a0 Around the time of the American Revolution he was also known to transport African slaves as well. Nathaniel Russell married a Sarah Hopton who was the daughter of a wealthy merchant who was established before the American Revolution.\u00a0 They had two children, Alicia and Sarah.\u00a0 Later the house would owned by other people such as Governor Allston and once it was used as a school for the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy for over 30 years.\u00a0 When the Historic Charleston Foundation received the house they went to work restoring both it’s interior and architectural structure back to what it was like when Nathaniel Russell owned it. The Nathaniel Russell house contained beautiful rooms.\u00a0 There were many layers of paint, wallpaper, and more on the interior that had to be carefully striped away and be restored.\u00a0 Some of the fireplaces we saw in the house had as many as thirty layers of paint and the details were barely noticeable until they started carefully striping away all layers.\u00a0 Fascinating!\u00a0 The house has a huge beautiful spiral staircase that goes up three floors.\u00a0 Although, the house was very large especially for that time the stairs actually take up about half of the house.\u00a0 Every section of the house was built in a different shape from a square, oval, circle, etc….\u00a0 It was a gorgeous house meant for showing off wealth, not necessarily for the most effective use of space.\u00a0 They had beautiful gold and decorative wallpaper, mirrors, and more.\u00a0 The house had a pretty ballroom with a high ceiling and mirrors.\u00a0 It would have been amazing traveling back in time to see this house during it’s original glory.\u00a0 Most of the furniture pieces are not original, but are from that period of time.\u00a0 I am thankful for an opportunity to see a glimpse of this neat house. Front of the Nathaniel Russell house.\u00a0 The picture was taken from the front sidewalk. Part of the Nathaniel Russell gardens. They do not allow pictures inside the house so here is a glimpse of the staircase, but it really doesn’t do it justice.\u00a0 Pretty amazing to see in person. The side of the house near the gardens.\u00a0 This side you can see the circular shape, the second story with the balcony contains the beautiful mirrored ballroom. If you look closely you can see the “NR” initials for Nathaniel Russell in the iron balcony. 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