The Mills House, Curio Collection by Hilton is a historic hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened in 1970, but its facade is based on the original historic hotel that sat on the site from 1853 to 1968. It boasts the history of fine hospitality where Queen and Meeting Streets meet begins in 1801, with Mary Grimke impressing guests with “beef steaks and oysters every evening.” When local grain merchant Otis Mills renovated this private home to create the Mills House Hotel, it dazzled with its grand scale & detailed construction. President Theodore Roosevelt even stayed at the hotel in 1902!

Hibernian Hall is located just north of the intersection of Meeting and Broad Street in central Charleston, an intersection known as the "Four Corners of Law". The hall was constructed in 1840 to a design by Thomas U. Walter of Philadelphia for the Hibernian Society of Charleston, an Irish benevolent society. This group had organized in 1801, made up largely of Irish immigrants. Hibernian Hall is the only remaining building associated with the 1860 Democratic National Convention, one of the most critical political gatherings in United States history. The building served as convention headquarters for the faction of the Democratic Party supporting presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas. The first floor was used as a meeting space, and the second floor as living quarters for the delegates, who slept on hundreds of cots set up for the occasion. None of the candidates could garner sufficient support, and the party's divisiveness contributed its defeat by the Republicans and Abraham Lincoln.