Name/Title
20 Church Street (William Holmes House)Entry/Object ID
CHURCH.020.01Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1809; restored mid-20th century. Prior to the building of the present home, this and the two parcels to the north were occupied by tenements built by Edward Fenwick, of Fenwick Hall Plantation. The adjacent tenements burned before 1785, leaving only the kitchen houses. This large single house was erected by 1809. The typical 3½-story Charleston single house, ornamented with stucco quoining and elaborate belt courses as well as a projecting pediment on the south side, still has an early-Neoclassical piazza door screen with a rectangular fanlight. As Holmes lived elsewhere, the 1809 directory lists James Ancrum as the resident on this property.
File contains FOHG house history (2001); FOHG history of the garden (1973); other narrative histories (undated, unattributed); HCF correspondence regarding the installation of a new garden (1995).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
CHURCH.020.Source or Donor
20 Church Street (William Holmes House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
Church Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, 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 21Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
CHURCH.020.02, CHURCH.020.03a-b, CHURCH.020.04Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 212Created By
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October 31, 2006Updated By
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February 17, 2023