Samuel Wainwright House, Georgian residence in Charleston, United States.

The Samuel Wainwright House is a 3+1⁄2-story Georgian Charleston single house at 94 Tradd Street, at the northeast corner of King Street. It has tall windows on the first two floors, smaller windows on the third, and dormers in the roof. Quoined corners and a modillioned cornice finish the exterior.

Samuel Wainwright arrived in South Carolina in the 1740s, became a wealthy planter and state legislator, and built this house around 1760 at 94 Tradd Street. He died in 1780 without children, and the house passed to members of the Wainwright and Bacot families. It later held a bakery, a grocery and the Tradd Street Pharmacy, which left in 1970. Mrs. James M. Wilson bought it in 1955 and restored it as a single-family house in the 1970s, removing an exterior staircase on the east side.

For much of its history the house doubled as a workplace: it held a bakery and a grocery, and the Tradd Street Pharmacy was its last commercial tenant, leaving in 1970. Residential tenants included Samuel Morse, who painted a portrait of Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot in his second-floor studio; the canvas now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The house is visible from the street and displays its architectural features clearly from the sidewalk, making it easy to observe during a walk through the neighborhood. It sits in a central part of Charleston within a district containing other historic buildings of similar age and style.

Artist Samuel Morse worked in a second-floor studio inside the house and painted a portrait of Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot that now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This reveals how Charleston residences served as working spaces for notable painters of the era.