No meal is complete without a cappuccino and a choice from the unsurpassable dessert menu. This elegant northern Italian restaurant is heralded for its authenticity. Hank's Seafood Restaurant Hank's offers the hilt of gourmet seafood set in a century-old revitalized warehouse. She-crab soup, a Charleston tradition, is a regional specialty of the house. Offering a first step into the low-country, visitors are familiarized with the Charleston faces of history and its fascinating heritage.
Exhibits abound, including Charleston-made furniture, architecture and silver.
In addition, introductions are made to plantation life and the Civil War period, to name a couple of the many events and times that molded the Charleston of today. The Heyward-Washington House Built in 1772, this was the home of Thomas Heyward Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Washington part of this historic home's name comes from the time period in which George Washington lived in the house in 1791. The house in filled with original Charleston-made furniture, and the formal garden stands as tribute to flowers of the period. A collection of paintings of birds by Anne Worsham Richardson, the official bird painter of South Carolina, can be found here.