Isaac Jenkins Mikell House

{{short description|Historic house in South Carolina, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Issac Jenkins Mikell House

| nrhp_type = nrhp

| image = Jenkins Mikell House.jpg

| caption = Issac Jenkins Mikell House

| location = 94 Rutledge Ave.,
Charleston, South Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|32|46|51.0672|N|79|56|31.6896|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = South Carolina#USA

| area = less than one acre

| built = 1853–1854

| architect =

| architecture = Roman Revival

| added = March 11, 2014

| refnum = 14000056

}}

File:94 Rutledge in Harper's Magazine.jpg

The Isaac Jenkins Mikell House is an imposing Roman Revival residence in the style of a grand Italian villa that was built in 1853–1854 by Edisto Island cotton planter and enslaver.1850 U.S. Federal Census-Slave Schedule Isaac Jenkins Mikell for his wife, Mary Martha Pope.{{cite web | url=http://www.preservationsociety.org/program_award_detail.asp?caID=81 | title=94 Rutledge Avenue | publisher=Preservation Society of Charleston | accessdate=July 13, 2014 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714111001/http://www.preservationsociety.org/program_award_detail.asp?caID=81 | url-status=dead }} The house should not be confused with Peter's Point Plantation, an Edisto Island plantation built in about 1840 by Isaac Jenkins Mikell which is also sometimes referred to as the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House.

The southern facade (overlooking Montagu Street) is dominated by a pedimented portico with six columns with composite capitals carved from cypress and ornamented with rams' heads. In addition to the main house, there is a kitchen building and a separate coach house on the premises. A 1939 photograph shows the slave quarters.

The house was bought in 1935 by the Charleston Free Library and served as a public library until the early 1960s, when it was sold and restored as a private residence. In 2008, the house sold for $4.8 million to Manhattan socialite Patricia Altschul.{{cite web | url=http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20080328/PC05/303289942 | title=Downtown estate sells for $4.8M | publisher=Post & Courier | date=March 28, 2008 | accessdate=July 13, 2014 | author=Stech, Katy}} The house is frequently featured on the Bravo television reality show, Southern Charm; Altschul is the mother of one of the program's regular cast, filmmaker Whitney Sudler-Smith, who is also executive producer of the show.{{cite web | url=http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140301/PC16/140309886 | title=Will 'Southern Charm' charm or go south? | publisher=Charleston Post & Courier | date=March 1, 2014 | accessdate=July 13, 2014 | author=Parker, Adam}} The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.{{cite web|title=Mikell, Isaac Jenkins, House|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/places/14000056.htm|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}