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The Stewart-Parker House was built by Robert Stewart around 1740.  The house was

originally constructed as a Georgian style

brick house with fifteen-inch thick walls. 

After Mr. Stewart’s death the house and

property was sold in 1787 to Daniel Tucker,

a very wealthy merchant.  It is local tradition

that Mr. Tucker entertained George

Washington in this house during his tour of

the South in 1791. Mr. Tucker made many

changes to the building.  Changing the

building’s style from Georgian to Federal

style by adding the stucco to the brick

exterior and the semi-circular rooms on the street-side of the house.  It is believed that

the decorative molding in the entrance

hall and southern parlor was also

added at this time. 

Benjamin Allston Sr. purchased the

property some time after 1825. 

Benjamin Allston is the great-great-

grandfather to Julia Pyatt Kaminski, the

last owner of the Kaminski House

Museum.  In the beginning of the 20th

Century, the house was passed into the

Parker family, through marriage.  The

house remained in the Parker family

until it was sold to the First Federal

Savings and Loan Association of

Georgetown (later Carolina First) in

1979. Carolina First gave the house to

the Parker-Stewart House Foundation

in 2001, which then leased it to the

City of Georgetown in 2002.  The

ownership of the house passed to the

Colonial Dames of South Carolina in

2006. 

Today, the second floor of the House

is used for offices, while the first floor

is available for weddings, meetings

and events.  The furnishings in the Stewart Parker house are reproductions.  It is not

known what the original furnishings were. 

Stewart

Parker

House