Caspar Christian Schutt House
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The Caspar Christian Schutt House is an early 19th-century house at 51 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
The house is one of the largest examples of a Charleston single house ever built in Charleston.[1] A wealthy German merchant named Caspar Christian Schutt had the house erected soon after buying the lot in 1799.[1] The interior features large rooms with unusually high ceilings.[2]
Mr. Schutt bought the lot from Benjamin Dart Roper on September 14, 1799.[3] Mr. Schutt was residing at his new house by 1802, but he died in 1803; his widow remained.[3]
In November 1939, owner Edwin Parsons died in a third-floor bedroom when his bed caught fire.[4] In 1941, widow Mrs. Edwin Parsons sold the house to Albert G. Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick--both of whom had served in Congress.[5]
The house held the record for the highest price for a Charleston house when it sold in October 2025 for $21,028,560.[6] It was the first house to sell for more than $20 million in Charleston.[7]