Hanover House was built in 1716 for French Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley County, South Carolina. St. Julien honored his French heritage in the mortar of one chimney where he inscribed, “Peu a Peu,” from the French proverb, “Little by little the bird builds its nest.” The house remained in the St. Julien and Ravenel families for nearly 150 years. The Historic American Buildings Survey of the Santee-Cooper basin noted that Hanover was of national significance. Threatened with flooding by Lake Moultrie in 1914, Hanover was preserved at Clemson University, home to the state’s architecture school. It was relocated to the South Carolina Botanical Garden in 1994 and overlooks an heirloom vegetable garden.
The Spartanburg Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America furnished Hanover museum with 18th and 19th century period artifacts. Hanover House is restored as a monument of early French Huguenot colonial structure. The museum interprets the lifestyles of Lowcountry South Carolina. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.