Name/Title
164-168 Broad Street (Simons Houses)Entry/Object ID
BROAD.164-168.001Scope and Content
Constructed 1886-91. A scion of Charleston's ancient Huguenot family, Samuel Wragg Simons built three of the houses in the block (164-172 Broad Street) between 1886 and 1891, a group presenting the most eclectic mix of Victorian styles in the city of Charleston. The oldest (and most modest) of the two houses, presently numbered 168 Broad Street, originally stood at 3 Franklin Street and was built by Simons by 1886, when he was an employee of a cotton exporting firm, Watson & Hill. The houses known as 164 and 166 Broad Street were built by Simons in 1891, after he had become manager of the company. The largest and most elaborate was 164 Broad Street, which he built as his own home. 164 Broad Street is 2½-stories of frame, made L-shaped by a gabled extension on the right side of the Broad Street facade. A three-story square tower with pyramidal roof fills the angle between the body of the house and the front extension. A one-story piazza with bracketed and chamfered square posts and a gable over the entrance steps, runs from the front extension westward across the facade. A second-level piazza, which appears to be a later addition, runs from the tower westward, over the shed roof of the original piazza. The three-bay wide house at 166 Broad Street is smaller but similar in detail. A distinctive element is the truncated gable end of the roof. The 2½-story frame house at 168 Broad Street is more conservative in style with traditional side piazzas (now mostly enclosed) but with paired windows on the first level and tall chimneys with corbelled caps, typical of ca. 1890.
File contains newspaper article (1980 DYKYC).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
BROAD.164-168.Source or Donor
164-168 Broad Street (Simons Houses)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Broad Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
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 15Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
2011.022.35a-b
Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 300Created By
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February 7, 2006Updated By
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February 16, 2023