13 Church Street (Thomas Ball House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

13 Church Street

13 Church Street

Name/Title

13 Church Street (Thomas Ball House)

Entry/Object ID

CHURCH.013.01

Scope and Content

Constructed before 1800; restored 1990-92. Standing on land owned in the early-18th century by Landgrave Thomas Smith, one of the most powerful figures in colonial Charleston, most of the houses in this area of Church Street were built after the Revolution. The building at 13 Church shows a rare survival of a clipped gambrel or jerkin head roof, and its interior reflects late-Georgian, post-Revolutionary details with alterations made in the early-19th century. Thomas Ball's executor's deed in 1820 describes the structure as a wooden house in need of repairs. The property was owned and rented out by Harriet Schutt, daughter of the builder of 51 East Bay Street, and her husband, Robert T. Chisolm; they conveyed the property to wealthy slave trader Thomas N. Gadsden in 1834. Gadsden lived here before moving to 116 Broad Street in the mid-1840s. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories (undated, 2009, 2016); 20th century occupancy history from Old Codgers' Charleston Address Book; chain-of-title; photocopy of 7/31/1968 plat.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

CHURCH.013.

Source or Donor

13 Church Street (Thomas Ball House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Church Street, 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 21

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

CHURCH.013.02a-b, CHURCH.013.03

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 211

General Notes

Note

Notes: 9/24/2020: House histories and chain-of-title in this file may actually pertain to 11 Church Street. Catalog record removed from Online Catalog until discrepancies between the inforomation in files for 11 and 13 Church Street can be sorted out.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

October 30, 2006

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023