Name/Title
71 Broad Street (Schachte Building, site of the Mansion House Hotel a/k/a Jehu Jones Hotel, William Burrows House)Entry/Object ID
BROAD.071.001Scope and Content
Mansion House constructed 1772, dismantled 1928. Schachte Building constructed 1930. Originally constructed in 1772 by William Burrows as his dwelling in town, a three-story wooden mansion on this site was only a fraction of the holdings of more than 10,000 acres owned by Burrows. Upon his death, the property passed through the hands of several relatives before Jehu Jones, a free African American, purchased this site in 1815 and operated a hotel here until 1833. The name Jones Hotel stayed with the property until 1852 when Mrs. Jane Davis rented the property and renamed it the Mansion House. After the Civil War, the structure became a boardinghouse, and by 1928 it was dismantled; a portion of its interior was bought by New York collector Francis Garvan. The present office building of modified Beaux Arts design was constructed in 1930. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains building history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston; newspaper article (Mercury, 2013); photocopy of photograph showing the wooden mansion; copy of SCDAH educational document packet Jehu Jones: Free Black Entrepreneur; chapter from Winterthur Portfolio III entitled "The William Burrows House of Charleston" by Harriet P. and Albert Simons (pp. 172-203, 1967, see Multimedia Link); excerpt from The Treasure House of Early American Rooms describing the dining room (with photograph).
A/k/a 71-73 Broad Street.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
BROAD.071.Source or Donor
71 Broad Street (Jehu Jones Hotel a/k/a Schachte Building)Acquisition Method
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Broad Street, Civic Square, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architecture--South Carolina--Charleston, African American men, African American business enterprisesArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files.
Level of Description: FolderLocation
Location
Shelf
Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 11Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
BROAD.071.002, BROAD.071.003, BROAD.071.004, BROAD.071.005
Related Units of Description: Excerpt from "Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina" (Larry Koger, 1986) -- TRADD.092.1 property file.Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 165-196.
Charleston Then & Now (Phelps), pp. 106-107Created By
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October 31, 2005Updated By
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February 17, 2023