Brick House Ruin

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture of the period.”
Wikipedia article Brick House Ruins, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1970 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Edisto Island, Edisto Island, 29438
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. structure
Census division. Edisto Island
National Register reference number. 70000580 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Brick House Ruin between 1992 and 2018, burning about 907 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Windsor Plantation	1.1 miles	1974
Lawton-Seabrook Cemetery	1.9 miles	2017
Frogmore	2.0 miles	1987
Edisto Island Presbyterian Church	2.3 miles	1971
Presbyterian Manse	2.5 miles	1971
William Seabrook House	2.6 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000580 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.