Hanover House

When Huguenot Paul de St. Julien built Hanover House in South Carolina in 1716, he placed the inscription “Peu a Pea” at the top of the home’s large chimney. Those words are part of the common French expression “The bird builds his nest little by little.” The small, carefully built house features handsome brickwork. The story is told that the owner originally planned to construct a solid brick house but had to substitute clapboard for the siding when nearly three kilns of bricks were used for the foundation and chimney alone. Squarish dormers and beautiful trim work also make the house special. Designated as the most architecturally significant structure in an area that was to be flooded when the Santee River was dammed, the house was carefully moved from its original site in Berkeley Country to the Clemson University campus in 1941.

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