1853 | Architecture, Real Estate
Architecture, Real Estate
The Mount Vernon Hotel that opens at Cape May, New Jersey, is the world's first hotel with private baths (see London's Savoy, 1889).
Charleston's 125-room Mills House opens at the corner of Meeting and Queen streets, where it has been built at a cost of $300,000 by Otis Mills, known in South Carolina as the John Jacob Astor of Charleston.