Hutchinson House, Historical house in South Carolina, United States

Hutchinson House is a one-story wooden house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, built around 1885 by Henry Hutchinson with his half-brother Jack Miller and their uncle John Pearson Hutchinson. It is the only surviving house of the homes Jim Hutchinson's children built on land he assembled for freed blacks after the Civil War. Heavy beams installed in 2017 shore up its fragile walls while restoration continues.

Henry Hutchinson is said to have built the house around the time of his marriage to Rosa Swinton in 1885, with help from his half-brother Jack Miller and their uncle John Pearson Hutchinson, an unlicensed black architect. He lived there until his death in 1940. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and the Edisto Island Open Land Trust bought it in 2016 and began stabilization in 2017.

Henry Hutchinson built the house around his 1885 marriage to Rosa Swinton and lived there until his death in 1940. Its survival marks the land-buying efforts of freedpeople on Edisto Island, where Jim Hutchinson assembled groups to purchase land collectively and each contributor received a fractional interest.

The house stands on Edisto Island and has been owned by the Edisto Island Open Land Trust since 2016; stabilization with heavy beams began in 2017, and porch and detail restoration was planned for completion by 2022 depending on funding. Because work may still be under way, contact the Land Trust before planning a look at the exterior.

Henry Hutchinson ran a McCarthy cotton gin powered by a coal-fired steam engine in a cotton house next to his home, ginning his own Sea Island cotton and that of other freedmen from about 1900 into the 1920s. The building had been part of Clark Plantation before he bought and refurbished it.