Soup in the Kitchen of the Benjamin Phillips House

CHARLESTON WAS NEVER just planters; the oldest parts of the city are filled with the lovely homes of merchants, suck as this one built by Benjamin Phillips in 1818. A variation of the single house, it is entered by a hall that runs down the south side of the house. There is a graceful Georgian arck at the end of the hallway leading into the dining room, where naively hand-painted wallpaper depicts a river, appropriate to the Charleston peninsula.