Locally popularly known as the Pineapple Gates House, the Simmons-Edwards House is a historic site in Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in the year 1800 for Francis Simmons, a wealthy Johns Island planter, by George Edwards. Edwards was a well known architect at the time, with his works widely studied and recorded today. He also purchased the property in 1816, thus the name of the property.
The Simmons-Edwards House got its nickname from its elaborately decorated wrought iron gates. Edwards added details of Italian pine cones on the fence, which people always mistaken for pineapples. This gave way to the property being called as the Pineapple gates House.
The Simmons-Edwards House was declared as a National Historic Landmark in 1973 mostly for its architecture.
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