96 Ashley Avenue (Theodore Gaillard House)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

96 Ashley Avenue

96 Ashley Avenue

Name/Title

96 Ashley Avenue (Theodore Gaillard House)

Entry/Object ID

ASHLEY.096.001

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1816. The well-to-do merchant and planner who built 60 Montagu Street constructed this as his new residence by 1816. The Gaillard House presents an unusually wide elevation and large closed-ended gable to the street. The 2½ story wood dwelling with beaded weatherboards and a double-tiered south piazza stands on a high stuccoed basement. A lunette window caps the tympanum of the modillioned west gable. A modified double house on the interior, the dwelling retains its late Federal and Regency style woodwork. After Gaillard's death the property was sold to Dr. Willis Wilkinson, whose daughter married Dr. Christopher G. Memminger, secretary of the treasury of the Confederacy and Charleston advocate of public education. In 1849, however, Dr. Paul Trapier Keith, the great-grandson of Nathaniel Russell and a priest of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, purchased the property. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house history ("old"); house history fromInformation for Guides of Historic Charleston; Guide Notes (source unidentified); newspaper article, "House Typical of its Period" (DYKYC); chain-of-title research notes (1955-1977); documentation related to the possible purchase of the property by HCF's Revolving Fund (rejected).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

ASHLEY.096.

Source or Donor

96 Ashley Avenue (Theodore Gaillard House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Ashley Avenue, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--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

Location

Container

PF Box 6

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

ASHLEY.096.002

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 488

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 10, 2005

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023