Confederate Home is a retirement home located in an early 19th-century building at 60 Broad St. , Charleston , South Carolina . The building started as a double tenement in about 1800 , built for master builder Gilbert Chalmers . From 1834 to 1867 , it was operated as the Carolina Hotel by Angus Stewart . In 1867 , sisters Mary Amarinthia Snowden and Isabell S. Snowden established the Home for the Mothers , Widows , and Daughters of Confederate Soldiers ( the Confederate Home ) and operated their housing program at the house . The Confederate Home bought the property outright in May 1874 . Two stores operated on Broad Street , with the educational and residential facilities behind . When the building was damaged by the 1886 Charleston earthquake , it was restored with Victorian details including mansard roof and dormers
1886 Charleston earthquake
1886 Charleston earthquake
Confederate Home