Nisbett House

Front inscription

This two-story wood frame building was built c.1725 for Alexander Nisbett of Dean, Scotland. It was originally the main house for Dean Hall, Nisbett’s rice plantation located ten miles south on the west banks of the Cooper River. William Augustus Carson of Charleston acquired the property in 1821, by which time it included 3,100 acres. In 1827 this building was replaced as Dean Hall’s main residence when Carson had a new brick home built at the property.

Reverse inscription

Upon the completion of his house, Carson is believed to have made this building the residence for Dean Hall’s overseer, who had charge over the roughly 200 enslaved people who worked the property. Benjamin Rufus Kittredge acquired Dean Hall in 1909 and opened Cypress Gardens there in the 1930s. The Nisbett House became overgrown until Patricia and Robert Solomon had it moved to this site and restored in 1968. It then housed a boutique and later a mental health clinic.