Wilds-Edwards House

South Carolina, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Wilds-Edwards House is an antebellum residence in Darlington, South Carolina, built around 1856 by Colonel Samuel H. Wilds and designed by J.L. Klickner in the Italianate style. The house was purchased in 1870 by Berryman Wheeler Edwards, a Harvard Law School graduate, Confederate veteran, and later state senator (1886–89), and remained in the Edwards family until the 1990s. Local tradition holds that the house survived General William T. Sherman's Campaign of the Carolinas because Klickner, who was among Union troops sent to burn Darlington, convinced the raiding captain to delay its destruction; before the troops could return, they encountered General Joseph Wheeler's cavalry and abandoned the mission. The house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.