Thomas Chiles Perrin House

The Greek Revival residence of Thomas Chiles Perrin, an Abbeville District lawyer, planter, businessman, and politician, stood here from 1858 until it burned in 1877. When completed, the house was described as one of the finest and most commodious mansions in the state. Perrin served as mayor, state representative and senator, and for many years as president of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. In December 1860, as chair of the Abbeville District delegation to the Secession Convention, he was the first signer of the Ordinance of Secession. As the Confederacy collapsed in May 1865, President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet held their last council of war across the street at the Burt-Stark Mansion, and Thomas and Jane Eliza Perrin hosted most of the Cabinet here during its brief stay in Abbeville.

Abbeville, South Carolina · United States