6 Gibbes Street (Parker-Drayton House a/k/a Drayton-Manigault House a/k/a Francis G. Boggs House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

6 Gibbes Street

6 Gibbes Street

Name/Title

6 Gibbes Street (Parker-Drayton House a/k/a Drayton-Manigault House a/k/a Francis G. Boggs House)

Entry/Object ID

GIBBES.006.001

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1806; altered 1820s. Isaac Parker, a planter and brickyard owner, built this substantial Neoclassical villa in 1806. When it was sold in 1820 to Col. William Drayton, the new owner extended the building to the east and west and probably added the large bowed front piazzas. Drayton moved his family to Philadelphia in 1837, and Charles Manigault, son of the architect Gabriel Manigault, purchased the house. Manigault filled the house with art collected in Europe as well as family heirlooms. His son Louis Manigault became a distinguished scientist and professor at the College of Charleston. Before the filling of the western edge of the peninsula, the windows of the house looked out over the marshes to the Ashley River. File contains FOHG house histories (1948, two undated); FOHG garden history (1994); newspaper articles (149-1969); house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston; house history from Architectural Guide to Charleston (Simons & Thomas); SCDAH Architectural Inventory Form; photocopies of photographs including HABS; Sanborn maps (1884, 1888, 1902, 1944 revision, 1951 update).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

GIBBES.006.

Source or Donor

6 Gibbes Street (Parker-Drayton House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Gibbes Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, 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 44

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2011.022.73, 2016.005.1, 2016.005.2a-d, 2016.005.3a-b, 2016.014.35, 2017.005.12, 2021.013.8a-b, GIBBES.006.002, GIBBES.006.003, GIBBES.006.004, GIBBES.006.005a-d, GIBBES.006.006a-c, GIBBES.006.007 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), pg. 224-225. FOH Tour booklets on Lowcountry Digital Library.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

November 30, 2005

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023