The Mills House Wyndham Grand Hotel is a historic hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened in 1970, but its facade is based on the original historic hotel that sat on the site from 1853 to 1968.
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First Mills House/St. John Hotel
The Mills House Hotel was built by local grain merchant Otis Mills and opened in 1853. The 180-room hotel was designed by architect John E. Earle and cost $200,000. The hotel survived the destruction of much of the city in the Civil War and was later renamed the St. John Hotel at the turn of the twentieth century. When President Theodore Roosevelt visited the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition in 1902, he stayed at the hotel. It gradually declined as newer hotels opened, and was finally sold at auction in 1968 to Charleston Associates (Richard H. Jenrette, Charles D. Ravenel, and Charles H. P. Duell).
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Modern Mills House
The new owners intended to restore the historic hotel, but found that the structure was unsalvageable. They demolished it and built a 217-room replica with a largely faithful facade, only increased from five to seven stories. The hotel was designed by the New York-based firm of Curtis and Davis, with the Ruscon Construction Company as the general contractor, and local architects Simons, Lapham, Mitchell and Small consulting on exterior design and historic details. Some elements from the original structure were retained, including the original wrought iron balcony on the second floor, and the terra cotta window pediments, which were used to cast replicas for the new building. The hotel was managed by Hyatt and opened on October 9, 1970 as The Mills Hyatt House. The hotel left Hyatt in 1983 and joined the Holiday Inn chain. It was marketed both with and without the chain name, sometimes as the Holiday Inn Mills House Hotel and also as The Mills House Hotel. The hotel's owner, the Bristol Hotel Company, was sold to FelCor Lodging Trust in 1998. The hotel left Holiday Inn after thirty years and joined the Wyndham chain on March 1, 2013 and was renamed The Mills House Wyndham Grand Hotel. FelCor was sold to RLJ Lodging Trust, run by billionaire BET founder Robert L. Johnson, in 2017.
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- Official website
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