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a national historic landmark

Preservation, Place & Purpose

Middleton Place holds deep truths, of beauty and heartbreak, of labor and liberation, of America as much as the people who aren’t always recorded in its textbooks. The Middleton Place Foundation was born from a profound responsibility: to preserve this land and give voice to the lives intertwined with it. Through gardens, artifacts, research, stories, and living interpretation, the Foundation honors and reveals the layered histories of this site.

The Inn at Middleton Place stands on the same land not to distract from that mission, but to carry it forward in hospitality. Designed to blend gracefully with its surroundings, The Inn offers a place of rest and reflection, where every guest receives access to Middleton Place’s landscapes and history. In caring for visitors, it helps sustain the stewardship, interpretation, and conservation that make this site possible.

Together, the Foundation and The Inn share a vision: to create a living, breathing place of learning, connection, and remembrance, where the full stories of this land are honored and carried forward.

 

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The Inn at Middleton Place

The Inn was created as a way to share this extraordinary landscape and history with visitors in a more immersive way. Designed in harmony with the natural surroundings, the Inn offers space for reflection, rest, and connection to the land.

Guests of The Inn receive complimentary access to Middleton Place, where gardens, history, and stories invite deeper engagement. 

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The Restaurant at Middleton Place

Overlooking the Mill Pond and the majestic Azalea Hillside, The Restaurant brings a seasonal twist to classic Lowcountry cuisine. Every dish is crafted with care from fresh, local ingredients and rooted in Southern tradition, drawing inspiration from legendary Chef Edna Lewis. For lunch, savor comforting staples like fried chicken, she-crab soup, shrimp & grits, and collard greens. As evening falls, the menu evolves into a more refined experience featuring fresh-caught seafood, organic poultry, select cuts of meat, and seasonal vegetables.

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The Middleton Place Foundation

The Middleton Place Foundation is a not-for-profit educational trust created to steward one of America’s most important historic landmarks. Its mission is to preserve the gardens, house museum, stableyards, and collections while bringing forward the stories of the people, enslaved Africans and African Americans, the Middleton family, and generations that followed, whose lives defined this place.

The Middleton Family & Essential, Life-Changing Stories

The historic preservation work and interpretation of history of this essential American experience focuses on major contributions of the Middleton family as well as the enslaved Africans and African Americans who lived and worked here. The stories are a microcosm of United States history. From the early Colonial period through the Revolution, the early Republic, the Civil War era and beyond, they made a mark on the land, the colony, state and nation.