— 22 ROOMS
Garden King
A 380-sqft room overlooking the rose garden. Hand-blocked wallpaper, four-poster king, soaking tub.
King bed380 sqftGarden viewSoaking tub
$640/night
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The House
192 years on this corner. Twenty-two as a hotel.
The Aldgate began life in 1832 as the Charleston residence of cotton broker Thomas Aldgate, sat empty through the Reconstruction years, served as a regional hospital in 1918, and returned to private hands in 1942. The current owners — the fourth generation of the Beaufort-side Aldgates — restored the mansion to its 1880s plan in 2002 and opened the doors as a thirty-eight-room hotel in 2003.
What separates The Aldgate is what we did not do. We did not blow out the original load-bearing walls. We did not install a chain-hotel lobby. We did not add a rooftop bar. The verandahs that look out over White Point Garden were built in 1839 and they still look out over White Point Garden today — wider, taller, slower than anything you've stayed in.
You will find no two rooms alike. You will find a 24-hour concierge who answers the phone in two rings. You will find a Forbes Five-Star spa in what used to be the carriage house and a James Beard semifinalist kitchen where the original keeping room sat.
