Charles Hammond House, Colonial house in North Augusta, South Carolina, United States.
The Charles Hammond House at 908 Martintown Road is a two-story pine clapboard house begun around 1775–1780 and enlarged in 1830 with front and side porches, a rear wing giving an L-shaped plan, and a pipe-stem chimney. The east and south porches are two-story, each carried on four square paneled columns.
This house was built around 1780 for Charles Hammond, who had relocated from Virginia. Major renovation work in the 1830s introduced architectural elements reflecting later design trends.
The Hammond family were Patriots: Charles and his sons served in the Revolutionary War, and a granite monument shaped like a pyramid on the grounds commemorates several Hammond relatives who were Revolutionary War heroes. A family cemetery stands next to the house. The name comes from Charles and Elizabeth Steele Hammond, planters who arrived from Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, in the 1770s.
The house stands at 908 Martintown Road in North Augusta, on a bluff above the Savannah River. It is a private residence, so the grounds, family cemetery, guest house and barn are not open for tours; the columned porches and pyramid-shaped granite monument are best seen from the road.
The porch roof features an original winch and pulley system that was used to lift wooden beams during construction. This practical feature reveals the building techniques that workers employed in the 1700s.
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