ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: Philip Simmons Museum Home and Workshop, 30 1/2 Blake St, Charleston, SC 29403-5044We will start our exploration of Charleston's 300 year old African community at the Philip Simmons Museum where one of the greatest African American artist of the 20th century created a lifetime of beauty. Led by the museum docents, we will witness the humble life of a great artisan.Duration: 30 minutesPass By: Aiken-Rhett House, 48 Elizabeth St, Charleston, SC 29403-6250Built in 1820 by merchant John Robinson, the Aiken-Rhett House is nationally significant as one of the best-preserved townhouse complexes in the nation. Vastly expanded by Governor and Mrs. William Aiken, Jr. in the 1830s and again in the 1850s, the house and its outbuildings include a kitchen, the original slave quarters, carriage block and back lot. The house and its surviving furnishings offer a compelling portrait of urban life in antebellum Charleston, as well as a Southern politician, slaveholder and industrialist. The house spent 142 years in the Aiken family's hands before being sold to the Charleston Museum and opened as a museum house in 1975.Pass By: Mother Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401, USAThe church was founded as the Hampstead Church on Reid and Hanover streets. Hampstead Church was part of the "Bethel circuit" of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States, founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816 by Richard Allen. They created an independent congregation because of a dispute over use of the black burial ground. The white-dominated churches had increasingly discriminated against blacks in Charleston, culminating in Bethel Methodist's construction of a hearse house over its black burial ground. In 1818, church leader Morris Brown left a white Methodist church in protest, and more than 4,000 Black members of the city's three Methodist churches followed him to create this new church.

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking,Wheelchair accessible,Stroller accessible,Service animals allowed,Near public transportation,Transportation is wheelchair accessible,Surfaces are wheelchair accessible,Most travelers can participate,This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund,This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund,This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers,Face masks required for travelers in public areas,Face masks required for guides in public areas,Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff,Social distancing enforced throughout experience,Guides required to regularly wash hands,Regular temperature checks for staff,Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms

Museum entry fee for the Philip Simmons House at 30-1/2 Blake Street.,Entry fee for the Halsey Gallery of Contemporary Art at 161 Calhoun Street.,Entry/Admission - Philip Simmons Museum Home and Workshop