Growing up in Charleston, and attending Charleston County Public Schools, going to the Manigault House (Which is right across the street from the Charleston Museum) was, I think, required every year from grade 1-12. At least that's my assumption since I was forced to go to this house every year from grade 1-12.
It's a decent house. They show you secret passageways between the walls, which is rather neat and made me want to have secret passageways in MY walls.
Aside from a bunch of furniture you can't sit on, and pictures you can't touch, there's not much to the Manigault House. I'm not even sure what Joseph Manigault did that made him so special (you'd think I'd know with all the times I had to tour this place), but he must have been some kind of guy to have a house this big AND that close to the museum. I think he signed the Constitution or Declaration of Independence.
Go here if someone else is willing to pay for you to get in (You pay the fee at the museum box office). Otherwise, watch that old movie The Blue And Grey about the Civil War and imagine yourself walking around the old houses, because they all pretty much look the same inside.
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