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32 Battery, Estate of the Day

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The Battery area of Charleston, South Carolina is home to some of the grandest older homes in the country. Today's home, the Colonel John Ashe House, was built around 1782. It has been restored head to toe, from the brick flooring in the basement to the gold sphere on top of the cupola.

The four story Charleston double house is located across from White Point Gardens and its balconies and cupola offer view of Charleston Harbor, the Sullivans Island Lighthouse and Ft. Sumter in the distance. The home's elegant rooms have large windows many with double rows of shutters and elaborate moldings including the pediment structures over the dining room entrances. The master suite has two baths, a sitting room and walk-in closet. The library/den is lined with custom cabinetry for books and collectibles. The home's guest wings and nursery wing complete with back stairs down to kitchen offer privacy for the home's residents. There are a total of six working fireplaces, one with an overmantel painting, an18th century Italian landscape believed to be attributed to Giovanni Panini (1691-1765). The carriage house is a separate two-story, two-bedroom brick house. The backyard has a bricked courtyard. This home is listed at $9.875 million.

Gallery: 32 Battery

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High Living In Lowcountry, Kiawah Island, Estate Of The Day

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Kiawah Island, is located 21 miles south of historic Charleston, on the South Carolina coast. The island is about 10,000 acres, over 10 miles in length and 1.5 miles at its widest point, bordered by protective sand dunes. It is one of the few places still left in our country where elegance co-mingles with eco-sensitivity. Houses built here are extremely high end, but with a green perspective, as Kiawah itself is a place with untouched marine forests, wild birds and mammals, bordered by marshland and ocean.

At present, this Estate Of The Day is the largest in terms of acreage and square footage on Kiawah, as well as the most expensive at $29 Million. It is a 15,000-square-foot gated residence, with a five-car garage, a separate guest home with fitness facilities, an additional 5,000 square feet of outdoor living space --open decking, porches, balconies, and an infinity pool. Other amenities include a media wall, butler's pantry, stocking room, wine cellar, office, and a mahogany paneled study. The home interiors were created by Jacquelynne P. Lanham Designs of Atlanta, who worked with the estate's seven bedroom, eleven bath interior to make each room balance one another, through texture, color and light. As an example, the master baths are his and hers, with his highlighting a Japanese Ofuro tub, and hers a french-style pewter soaking tub. Both share a sauna.The exterior is made of Western Red Cedar shingle, handmade 'Savannah Gray' brick, with mahogany trim.

The outdoor landscaped gardens, were designed by Oehme van Sweden of Washington, D.C., who created complimentary flora and fauna highlights to the marsh grasses that leads to the owner's private deepwater boat dock at Kiawah's westernmost tip. Further, the 11.7-acre grounds include two additional homesites. The bucolic setting for both estate and homesites include mature live oak, sea grass, leafy palmetto, and pine. The views are of the Atlantic, the Stono Inlet and the Kiawah River.

This Estate Of The Day was generously provided to Luxist by Kiawah Island Real Estate

Gallery: Blue Heron Pond Road

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Daniel Island, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a new build on the water in the Daniel Island area of Charleston, South Carolina. The home is on a bend in Ralston Creek and has an infinity pool that looks out onto the marsh. The home's mansard roof is meant to recall more historic homes in the area but up close it's all modern. You enter the home through a reflection pool courtyard facing a pair of bronze and resin sunburst doors.

The home has an open layout with a large windows facing the marsh and light wood. The kitchen has a double layout that features two work areas separated by a six-burner stove that can be used from both sides. An island separates the entertaining area of the kitchen from the home's open living rooms. The bathrooms are angular and modern. A particularly whimsical note is the floral print dining room with clear ghost chairs and a beaded chandelier.

The home has its functional side too. There are surveillance cameras, remote-controlled hurricane shutters, two laundry rooms and a garage that can store up to seven cars. Outside there is a pool-side kitchen and deck and easy access to a deep-water dock with a boat lift. This home is listed at $6.499 million.

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