" -But tell us a little bit about Milford, who built it?"

" -Milford was designed in the 1830s by a young couple, the Manning's of South Carolina. Prominent family in politics and wealth and power."

" -And courageous to build something this extraordinary"

" -Interestingly, they were in their 20s when they designed the house."

" -Quite a passion for style"

" -Yeah, and then who owned it next?"

" -Well, the house stayed in the Manning family till the early part of this century, the Clarks from Detroit bought the house as a winter retreat"

" -And they held it until about 1982"

" -And then my uncle, Richard Jenrette bought the house"

" -And your uncle's very well known in business circles, but he also collects and restores houses and furniture"

" -That's right, this is his latest one."

" -What a wonderful hobby to have"

" -Yeah it is."

" -Well I can't wait to see the inside but the outside, it is a Greek revival temple but it's very unusual, isn't it?"

" -Yes, it's very elaborate with the ornamentation, the columns and the style of the house"

" -And those incredible capitals on the columns, yeah, shall we go inside?"

" -Well, let's do it."

" -Was the house damaged during the civil war?"

" -Almost, on the last day of the war, the house was evidently burned down and fortunately a horseman came galloping up the hill said that war pays forgive and signed an affidavit don't burn it down, so it was saved by that."

" -Yeah, thank you"

" -There was a incident where horsemen rode through this grand hallway on their horses, 4 abreast of one another, rode back and forth of the hall. The house then belonged to the Governor of the State and I think it was an insult on him."

" -An insult, yes indeed, 4 horses of course would fit in this hall, it must be 50 feet long and 15 feet wide?"

" -I think that's about accurate."

" -And of course the furnishings and the detail, everything is just perfect in here. What room is this?"

" -This is a double parlor that was designed for entertaining and this is a room where dances could be held or just sitting and talking or reading."

" -Look at these windows."

" -These are incredible, this is a wonderful architectural feature. All the house has been restored, these windows recede up into the ceiling"

" -So that you can"

" -And you can actually walk out"

" -Yeah."

" -The feeling that you're outside during the springtime."

" -Amazing. I understand that your uncle collects houses and collects antique furniture but also likes to kind of put the puzzles back together or finding original furnishing?"

" -Yes. Much of the furniture in this house belonged to Governor and Mrs. Manning, the builders of the house. He likes to get pieces that were actually in the house and many of these never left the house."

" -Beautiful mahogany, empire type and style furniture, what about the chandelier, well there's 2 of them"

" -Yeah"

" -Are they original? _The chandeliers actually belong to another house that my uncle owns, Edgewater house in the Hudson River and he brought those to South Carolina"

" -Thinking that they were more appropriate for the rooms."

" -They're perfect in here."

" -Beautiful."

" -What's on the other side of the hall?"

" -We have a dining room and the library are on this side of the hallway."

" -Oh, this is truly magnificent, isn't it?"

" -It's a wonderful dining room. The table was originally owned by the owners of the house and had escaped to the Columbia Governors mansion for many years and after my uncle purchased the house, we had it return to the house."

" -So the table and chairs"

" -are part of the original furnishings."

" -Exactly."

" -I love the shape of the dining room though, it starts off as a rectangle and it kind of ends on a curve at this end and the doors are also curved and the plaster I guess has been painted to look like stone, marble."

" -Yes, it makes it look like the Grecian temple."

" -Well, yeah, that's the whole feeling of the house, isn't it."

" -This is truly a spiral staircase, but I have never seen anything so magnificent."

" -Well, it's so important to the house, is actually in its own room, it's a rotunda with a large circular floor, roughly 15 feet across and it sends up the stairway to a dome at the top 40 feet high."

" -And all the detailing is, you know, it's pure Greek revival and it looks like it was just crafted yesterday."

" -Just wonderful details throughout."

" -Look at the decorations on the floor, is that original?"

" -The floor is actually a new design to embrace the Grecian ideals of the house."

" -Beautifully done, yeah, so the bedrooms are off of this other hall?"

" -That's right."

" -Well you've done a great job of keeping this Greek theme going through. The carpets, the furniture, everywhere you look."

" -Yes, it's the same thing that's carried out throughout the house and this is one of the bedrooms with a wonderful [unk] for hanging clothes, houses of this era didn't have built-in closets like we're used to now."

" -That's certainly of the period, but the bed, I'm not sure, it's not Not a Greek revival bed, is it?"

" -No, it's a lovely mahogany bed though and"

" -It's so huge, you need steps to get into it, I love that, yeah. What about the bedroom across the hall?"

" -It's a little more comfortable, a little more livable with a mix of more traditional comfortable furniture as well as a lovely bed."

" -It's a great color scheme, the yellow, the gold with the blue as you see it in the carpet downstairs"

" -It really does, it pulls you out to the sky outside."

" -And that bathroom through there"

" -Well when was the house first renovated, I'd say early in the 1900s"

" -That's right, the Clark family in the early part of the 20th century did"

" -1920's bathroom with all that marble."

" -Marble"

" -And then of course all the beautiful antiques everywhere, I'd say your uncle has done a fabulous job of restoring this house."