15 Church Street (Snowden House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

15 Church Street

15 Church Street

Name/Title

15 Church Street (Snowden House)

Entry/Object ID

CHURCH.015.01

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1842; altered ca. 1887-1888. This, the third dwelling to stand on the site, was occupied in the antebellum period by Dr. William Snowden and his wife Amarinthia Yates and was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War. The Snowdens fled to Columbia when shells struck the house during the bombardment of Charleston in 1864. Mrs. Snowden, who had been chief fundraiser for the Calhoun monument before the war, returned here in 1865. It was in this house that the meetings leading to the formation of the Ladies Memorial Association and The Confederate Home and College were held by Mrs. Snowden and her sister. The 2½ story, side-hall plan dwelling retains its original Flemish-bonded brickwork, entry door architrave, and double-tiered side piazzas. The present mansard roof was added during repairs following the earthquake of 1886. House history refers to it as the Phillips-Snowden House. File contains narrative history (1969); chain-of-title research; newspaper articles (including DYKYC); copy of 1829 marriage settlement between Isabel Sarah Yates and Joshua L. Snowden to David Yates and William Snowden referring to the wooden house and lot on the west side of Church Street.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

CHURCH.015.

Source or Donor

15 Church Street (Snowden House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Church Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, Loutrel Briggs garden, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Historic gardens

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.015.02, CHURCH.015.03, CHURCH.015.04 Related Units of Description: See also HALS/Loutrel Briggs Garden Survey (2007.016.1).

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 211-212

Created By

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Create Date

October 31, 2006

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023