Plantation House
The name of Benjamin Chaires' plantation was Verdura and it was located about 12 miles southeast of downtown Tallahassee. It did not have columns on the front, but there was a row of columns on the east and west sides of the house. Verdura's mansion was a 3 story brick home with 15 rooms. This house burned in the 1880s.
The house pictured above is called The Columns and is located in downtown Tallahassee. It was on the corner of Adams and Park, but was moved to its current location, the corner of Park and Duval, in the 1970s. It is the current home of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. The Chaires family lived in the columns periodically, most likely when Indian attacks were imminent, but Benjamin Chaires did not own the building. He signed the deed as President of the Union Bank which owned The Columns then. Verdura and The Columns were most likely built around the same time, the 1830s. Benjamin probably had a hand in the building of The Columns as he was a brick manufacturer in addition to his other endeavors.
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