[2][3] The Gibbes House is set on the north side of South Battery, at the southern end of the historic Charleston peninsula.

The main entrance is set under a broad modillioned pediment, which is supported by four pilasters, with wide sidelight windows between the outer pairs.

It has four rooms on each floor, two on each side of a central hall, which is an elaborately decorated space with a columned arch and a staircase with a Civil War-era wrought iron railing.

The Smith family purchased the house in 1794, and remodeled portions Adamesque style, including the marble steps in front.

[4] After the Civil War, the house was acquired by the widow of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge; she extended the building to the north in 1928.