93 Broad Street (Bocquet House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

93 Broad Street, North Facade

93 Broad Street, North Facade

Name/Title

93 Broad Street (Bocquet House)

Entry/Object ID

BROAD.093.001

Scope and Content

Constructed 1783. Either Peter Bocquet Sr. or Peter Bocquet Jr. built the house at 93 Broad Street in 1783 in the restrained Neoclassical style with a ground-floor office space. In the 1850s the property was acquired by James Simons, an attorney, Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives, and commander of the militia forces in the initial attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. Simons added the large 3-story wing and hyphens, connecting the main house with the rear kitchen building. At the same time the main dwelling was converted to a side-passage, double-parlor residence trimmed in the Greek Revival style. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) Three files contain original legal documentation of the easement on the property; Confirmation of Understanding letter; annual inspection report; correspondence related to the management of the property; narrative histories including one from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston and a report entitled "A Brief History of 93 Broad Street" by Meadors Construction; historical/chain-of-title research notes (handwritten by staff); copies of photographs; newspaper articles (including DYKYC); Request for Proposal re: sale of the property; graduate student report "Historic Preservation and Sustainability in Charleston: A Case Study of Meadors' 93 and 97 Broad Street Projects" (Jennifer Betwsorth, 2010) (see Multimedia link). Also available (pdf) are documents containing correspondence and other documentation from 1994-2006 relating to various issues involving 93-97 Broad Street, including legal correspondence. Files had been maintained by HCF Executive Directors Carter Hudgins and Kitty Robinson. The original files were not processed, except organized chronologically, and some items may be redundant. This is a new easement property so files will become more complete in time. The files may eventually contain additional items such as correspondence and other documentation related to the easement; Part I certification (National Register); annual inspection reports and requests for alterations; easement inspection photos; correspondence and other documentation related to the sale of the property. Note: Images herein are from the Cultural Resource Assessment. See Easement Documentation Photo Files for easement donation photographs (Exh. B to Deed of Conservation Easement). No inspection photographs on file (see Easement Manager).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

BROAD.093.

Source or Donor

93 Broad Street (Bocquet House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Broad Street, Easement Property, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Sustainable architecture--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 Gift Folder 1 Management Folder 1 History/Miscellaneous Folder 3 Correspondence Folders

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 14

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

BROAD.085-87.001, BROAD.089-91.001, BROAD.089-91.002a-d, BROAD.089-91.003, BROAD.089-91.004, BROAD.089-91.005, BROAD.089-91.006, BROAD.089-91.007, BROAD.089-91.008, BROAD.089-91.009, BROAD.089-91.010, BROAD.093.002, BROAD.093.003, BROAD.093.004, BROAD.093.005, BROAD.093.006, BROAD.093.007, BROAD.093.008, BROAD.093.009a-i, BROAD.093.010, BROAD.093.011a-c, BROAD.093.012a-c, BROAD.097.001, BROAD.097.002, BROAD.097.003a-b, BROAD.097.004, BROAD.101.001, BROAD.GEN.023 Related Units of Description: See also Easement Manager's working files for more information. See also Property File Boxes 13A-B for correspondence and legal documents relating to 85-101 Broad Street/Hollings Judicial Center Annex, 1983 to the present; correspondence related to 93 Broad Street (1992-1997 and 1998-2001); and Phase One Cultural Resource Assessment, Hollings Judicial Center Annex. Note: This is a preliminary inventory of contents of 93 Broad Street documents; the files remain in need of selection and better organization. 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. 173-174 Kris King's Endangererd Structures report (Pamph 156) HCF Nov. 2005 newsletter

General Notes

Note

Notes: Correspondence and legal documents related to the Judicial Center Annex on DVD and External Hard Drive (MyPassport1); filed in Box 18.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

January 26, 2006

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023