A 1964 Federal building transformed into Charleston's most design-serious boutique. Henrietta's bar programme is the finest in the city.
The Dewberry Charleston opened in 2016 in the former Federal Building on Meeting Street — a 1964 building that received a federal General Services Administration design commission at the moment when American government architecture was at its most ambitious. The conversion, by local architect Andrew Gould, produced the most design-serious hotel in Charleston: a mid-century modern interior programme using custom American-made furniture, vintage accoutrements, and the kind of material quality that the building's institutional origins would not suggest.
The 155 rooms are the most consistently designed in Charleston — the mid-century palette of walnut, leather, and brass extends from the public spaces through every room category. The Living Room bar is the hotel's social centre: a double-height room with the building's original steel-and-glass curtain wall, a book collection, and the Henrietta's cocktail programme that is widely acknowledged as the finest bar in South Carolina.
Springhouse restaurant serves a contemporary low-country menu in a dining room that draws from the same mid-century design vocabulary. The hotel's Meeting Street location — the Peninsula's main north-south axis — places it equidistant from the French Quarter to the south and the Upper King restaurant corridor to the north.
The Dewberry's mid-century design programme and the Henrietta's cocktail bar produce an anniversary with a specifically contemporary Charleston identity — very different from the antebellum romanticism of Zero George or the grandeur of the Belmond. For couples who find great design genuinely romantic, the Dewberry is the correct Charleston choice. See all anniversary hotels →
The Dewberry's Living Room bar — one of America's great hotel bars — and the solo-dining atmosphere at Springhouse make it the most comfortable solo hotel in Charleston. The mid-century design creates an interior environment that is calm and deliberate, and the Meeting Street location puts every Charleston experience within walking distance. See all solo retreat hotels →
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