The stately Edmondston-Alston House is one of Charleston's most splendid dwellings, a gracious example of early 19th-century commitment to elegance, style, and comfort. Originally built in 1825 by Charles Edmondston, the house was sold in 1837 to Charles Alston, who modified the facade of the house in the fashionable Greek Revival style by adding a third floor piazza with Corinthian columns. Alston family furniture, paintings, silver and other objects are displayed in the high-ceilinged rooms much as they have been for over a century and a half. Water-cooled breezes funnel in from the piazzas, which offer unlimited vistas across the Charleston Harbor to Fort Sumter.