Hightower Hall, Historic house museum in McConnells, South Carolina, United States

Hightower Hall is a two-story, weatherboarded frame dwelling near McConnells, York County, South Carolina, completed in 1856 in a vernacular interpretation of the Italianate style. Its front facade carries a three-story tower rising ten feet above the main roof, with a low-pitched roof, deep eaves, decorative brackets and verandahs. Two barns and two slave cabins stand on the property.

John Simpson Bratton Jr. and Harriet Rainy Bratton began building the house in 1854 and completed it in 1856 as Forrest Hall. After John died in 1888 and Harriet in 1912, their daughter Sophia Witherspoon and her husband Robert took ownership. IBM executive R. F. Draper bought the house in 1958 and renamed it Hightower Hall; it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The house was built for John Simpson Bratton Jr. and Harriet Rainy Bratton and first named Forrest Hall; the name Hightower Hall came in 1958 with its purchase by IBM executive R. F. Draper. Today it is a historic house museum within Historic Brattonsville, near McConnells in York County, South Carolina.

Hightower Hall stands near McConnells in York County, South Carolina, within Historic Brattonsville, and is open as a historic house museum. Visitors reach the house on foot through the Brattonsville grounds; the two barns and two slave cabins on the property are seen on the same walk. Allow time to view the three-story tower and verandahs from the front facade.

The house was built for John Simpson Bratton Jr. and Harriet Rainy Bratton, who called it Forrest Hall; the name Hightower Hall came only in 1958, when IBM executive R. F. Draper bought it. Draper's family added 1,285 acres before his death in 1995.