126 Alexander Street (Cordt Dieckhoff House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

126 Alexander Street

126 Alexander Street

Name/Title

126 Alexander Street (Cordt Dieckhoff House)

Entry/Object ID

ALEXANDER.126.001

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1867. Cordt Dieckhoff was a German grocer who built this 3-story masonry structure with flat roof on the site where a 3-story frame house had been destroyed by a fire caused by the explosion and burning of the Northeastern Railroad Depot across the street at Chapel and East Bay Streets. Dieckhoff purchased the lot with a loan from the City under the "Ordinance to aid in Rebuilding the Burnt Districts and Waste Places of the City," and built the main building as his store and residence, and the 2-story rear building as an outbuilding or tenement. After 1882, the small 1-story frame house was added to the rear yard as a tenement. Retains evidence of its early first-floor storefront and an enclosed piazza screen. Pressed metal window hoods and cornice add architectural distinction to this mixed-use building (Poston, Buildings of Charleston). File contains handwritten (staff) research sources notes, with short house history attached.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

ALEXANDER.126.

Source or Donor

126 Alexander Street (Cordt Dieckhoff House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Mazyckborough and Wraggborough, Corner store, Alexander Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Corner stores--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files Level of Description: Folder

Location

Location

Shelf

Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Notes

PF Box 2

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2011.022.33, ALEXANDER.126.002 Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), p. 588-589

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Online Catalog

Label

Constructed ca. 1867. Cordt Dieckhoff was a German grocer who built this 3-story masonry structure with flat roof on the site where a 3-story frame house had been destroyed by a fire caused by the explosion and burning of the Northeastern Railroad Depot across the street at Chapel and East Bay Streets. Dieckhoff purchased the lot with a loan from the City under the "Ordinance to aid in Rebuilding the Burnt Districts and Waste Places of the City," and built the main building as his store and residence, and the 2-story rear building as an outbuilding or tenement. After 1882, the small 1-story frame house was added to the rear yard as a tenement. Retains evidence of its early first-floor storefront and an enclosed piazza screen. Pressed metal window hoods and cornice add architectural distinction to this mixed-use building (Poston, Buildings of Charleston). File contains handwritten (staff) research sources notes, with short house history attached.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

May 5, 2004

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

May 25, 2023