The Wentworth Mansion is a

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. It was built in 1886 as a home for cotton merchant Francis Silas Rodgers (b. 7 May 1841, d. 13 Mar 1911 (aged 69)) and his family. Rodgers' is buried in Magnolia Cemetery. The mansion is

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in style. The Rodgers Mansion was purchased in 1920 for

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100,000 by the

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Cathedral Association of Charleston, a

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organization. In 1922 it constructed an auditorium which could accommodate the organization's 600 members on the property, connected by a corridor to the mansion; the auditorium was removed some time later. It is a contributing property in the

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.See sources at

covering the large scope of that historic district. This site is in the core area, well south of the northern boundary, Bee St. It was listed as a member of

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by the

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since 2003.

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