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The Linwood Inn

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A suburban, lesser known cousin of the famed Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation estates, Summerville’s Linwood Inn is the easygoing young charmer of the Drayton clan’s holdings.

The Linwood Inn
200 South Palmetto Street, Summerville
oday, a number of original features remain: the sitting room boasts period bay windows, moldings, and the original fireplace, and a view of the front porch reveals old triple-sash windows.
Early photos of the Linwood House
Lulu, a Hastie relative, with dogs Gyp and Snipe on the front porch (photograph circa 1890)
A side view of Linwood House, revealing one of two bay windows
Linwood House owner William Hastie near the corral, where his carriage would have been brought to him (photograph circa 1890)
Hastie son Norwood with a woman by the name of Marie Clinton (photograph circa 1890)
Norwood Hastie, son of Linwood House owners Julie Drayton and William Hastie (photograph circa 1890)
Linwood House, pre-earthquake
The Reverend John Grimke Drayton, homeowner Julia Drayton Hastie’s father and patriarch of Magnolia Plantation, on the porch of Linwood House (photograph circa 1890)
Early photos of the Linwood House
Owner Julia Drayton Hastie in the front garden of Summerville’s Linwood House, now known as the Linwood Inn. This late-1880s photograph was taken by George LaGrange Cook, son of noted Civil War photographer George S. Cook. The pine and magnolia trees in the front left of the photo are still living.

Photographs by Paul Zoeller (3) & Courtesy of Linwood Bed & Breakfast (4)