Name/Title
95 Broad Street (Bocquet House)Entry/Object ID
BROAD.095.001Scope and Content
Constructed 1779; additions and alterations, ca. 1820 and 1850; restored 1990-91. Built by the son of the Huguenot baker who owned the property next door and several other lots in the area. The first floor was altered in the mid-19th century with two door surrounds, one to provide separate street access to the L-shaped stair hall and the other leading directly into a front room used for business. (The floor plan is the same as that of the Phillips House at 55 Church Street.) The eastern door surround with Federal style gougework is original, while the architrave of the west door is a modern reproduction. The house is noted for the extraordinary quality of its woodwork. The overmantel section of the drawing room chimneypiece, similar to the woodwork at 128 Tradd Street and to the memorial to Lady Anne Murray in the First Scots Presbyterian Church, is attributable to one of several English carvers working in the city in the 1760s and 1770s. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains "Visitual Inspection of Surface Conditions" (Phillips & Oppermann report, 1990); house history by Samuel Gaillard Stoney (1950?); house history from Vernacular Architecture of Charleston and the Lowcountry; house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston (1984); house history from City of Charleston Tour Guide Training Manual (2011); various FOHG house histories and tour notes (1979, 1992, undated); newspaper articles (DYKYC, 1954, 1977 / Charleston Mercury 2009); captioned photograph of Broad Street houses including 95 Broad Street (source not indicated); measured drawing of the second floor plan (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation).
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.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
BROAD.095.Source or Donor
95 Broad Street (Bocquet House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
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 14Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
BROAD.095.002a-f, BROAD.095.003, BROAD.095.004Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 173-174General 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.appCreate Date
January 26, 2006Updated By
admin@catalogit.appUpdate Date
February 17, 2023