54 King Street (James Brown House)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

54 King Street

54 King Street

Name/Title

54 King Street (James Brown House)

Entry/Object ID

KING.054.001

Scope and Content

Constructed between 1768-1777, renovated w/ addition 1994. 3-story single house. Detailing of the main house supports the 18th century construction date, although the piazza appears to post-date the construction by several decades. Recent renovations/repairs include new hyphen addition joining main house to rear dependency. Per 2011 FOH "Houses and Sites of the Civil War": From 1863 to 1877, the property was owned by George A. Trenholm, who lived in what is now Ashley Hall School. He was the Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States of America and is reputed to be a prototype for Margaret Mitchell's character Rhett Butler. File contains letter from L. Louis Green III to Benjamin Allston Moore enclosing the historic research performed on the house by HCF; newspaper article (DYKYC); BAR application for alterations/additions; narrative house history (undated, unattributed); document entitled "Preservation of the James Brown House (circa 1768) 54 King Street" (prepared by Mrs. Maurice H. Thompson); article entitled "Adding a Hyphen and a Garden with Maze to the James Brown House" (unattributed); excerpts from "The James Brown House, 54 King Street, a History" by Robert P. Stockton.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

KING.054.

Source or Donor

54 King Street (James Brown House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Historic buildings

Search Terms

King Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion

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

Location

Container

PF Box 50

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Brown, James

Related Entries

Notes

KING.054.002, KING.054.003, KING.054.004

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), p. 232

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

May 6, 2004

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 16, 2023