8 Bedon's Alley (Adam Tunno's Outbuilding)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

8 Bedon's Alley (Adam Tunno's Outbuilding)

Entry/Object ID

BEDONS.008.001

Scope and Content

On the Grand Modell Plat, Bedon's Alley was divided into 4 half acre plots running across to East Bay; 8 Bedon's Alley was in plot #8, which was assigned to Edward Musson in 1681. Most of the small brick houses on the east side of Bedon's Alley were built as outbuildings for the large establishments in Rainbow Row, including 8 Bedon's Alley, which provided service functions for Scottish merchant Adam Tunno's large office and residence at 89 East Bay Street; he had purchased the brick house there probably built ca. 1740. The walls of this house are 2 feet thick on 3 sides and over 3 feet thick on the north wall. The walls seem to date ca. 1780. In digging an opening through the north wall in 1945, a grape shot cannon ball (used during the Civil War) was found imbedded. These structures were rescued in the 1920s and 1930s by Susan Pringle Frost and renovated as individual dwellings with the detailing and landscape treatments in the Colonial Revival style. File contains FOHG house history (1981); FOHG tour information on the garden (Loutrel Briggs). No image on file.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

BEDONS.008.

Source or Donor

8 Bedon's Alley (Adam Tunno's Outbuilding)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Bedon's Alley, Loutrel Briggs garden, 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 7

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

Related Units of Description: See also HALS/Loutrel Briggs Garden Survey (2007.016.1).

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 54

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

September 6, 2005

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023