John Rutledge House Inn

The John Rutledge House at 116 Broad Street was built in 1763 as a wedding gift for John Rutledge, later a signer of the Constitution, who is said to have drafted versions of it in the second-floor drawing room; George Washington visited in 1791. It has been an inn since 1989 and is a member of Historic Hotels of America. Charleston ghost-tour writers tell of a girl who died in a fire and is said to run the halls and pull pillows from under guests' heads, a woman in an 18th-century ball gown who glides across the ballroom and a Confederate soldier who sits silently by the window in Room 11. The inn does not promote these stories.