Samuel Wainwright House

Samuel Wainwright arrived in South Carolina in the 1740s and rose quickly to become a wealthy planter and serve in the state legislature.

Around 1760, he built his imposing house at 94 Tradd St. at the northeast corner of King St.

He died in 1780 without children, and the house passed to other members of the Wainwright and Bacot families.

[1] For much of the house's history, it has been used as both a residential and commercial property including periods as a bakery and grocery.

Residential tenants included Samuel Morse, who painted a portrait of Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot in his second-floor studio which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.