Housing Authority of the City of Charleston, Housing Project No. SC-1-6 Planting Plan for the Robert Mills Manor. Courtesy of The South Carolina Historical Society.

Housing Authority of the City of Charleston, Housing Project No. SC-1-6, 1940

Also known as Robert Mills Manor, this property is Charleston’s earliest and most intact example of a locally initiated public low-income housing project. Constructed with subsidies from the Federal government, Robert Mills Manor was completed in two phases in 1939 and 1941, respectively.