The Pelican Inn was constructed in the 1840s and is one of several original houses remaining on Pawleys Island. Built as the summer home for Plowden Charles Jenrette Weston of Hagley Plantation, the architecture of the Inn is representative of the majority of the island’s original houses, which were commonly made with cypress lumber, wooden pegs, mortise and tenon joints, and hand cut nails. Because Pawleys was a summertime destination, doors, windows and porches were carefully designed to maximize ventilation and utilize ocean breezes to cool the rooms.