74 Church Street (Russell-Dehon Tenement)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

74 Church Street

74 Church Street

Name/Title

74 Church Street (Russell-Dehon Tenement)

Entry/Object ID

CHURCH.074.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1782-88; various 20th century renovations. This simple 2-story wooden single house with a closed gable roof served as a replacement for an earlier building that burned in the fire of 1778. Although the builder is unclear, the heirs of Sarah Russell Dehon, then living in the Russell House at 51 Meeting Street, sold this rental dwelling in 1852 from the group of properties held by the intermarried Hopton and Russell families on Tradd Street and Longitude Lane. Apparently, the Russell-Dehon Tenement was one of a pair of similar single houses; the other at the south corner of the lot bordering the lane has been lost. Longitude Lane, one of the surviving small alleys of the original city, formerly accessed rear buildings for the lots on Tradd Street as well as individual structures. Prior to construction of 51 Meeting Street, the Nathaniel Russell family lived at the northwest corner of Longitude and East Bay Street. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories (undated, 2003, 2014); narrative history by Louis Nelson (undated) ; updated historical research by Sarah Fick, including maps and plats (2010). See Multimedia Link for both narrative histories.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

CHURCH.074.

Source or Donor

74 Church Street (Russell-Dehon Tenement)

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 25

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2011.015.36a-d, 2016.014.15, 2016.014.21, CHURCH.074.2a-b, CHURCH.074.3, CHURCH.074.4, CHURCH.076-78.1, CHURCH.076-78.2a-b, CHURCH.076-78.3, CHURCH.078.1

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 73-74

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

January 10, 2007

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023