Title
Property File - Historical and Miscellaneous InformationDescription
Property file contains building history (Pemberton, 2017); FOHG house histories (ca. 2001, 2017); HCF memorandum regarding the status of research (1997) and a related research report (undated); chain-of-title and related deed and city directory research; "plan of a "wharf and channel lot" (1804) and Sanborn maps (1884, 1888, 1924); report "An Architectural Investigation of the Missroon House (Lounsbury & Wenger, 1997, 1999); article "Notes on Granville Bastion (Lapham, 1925); newspaper articles (including 1930 and 1968 DYKYC); Inventory of Margaret Missroon (1854); Missroon House Furnishings (2001); land conveyances, advertisements, and other research materials related to Hary Grant; photocopies of photographs including two ca. 1900 photo with notes about the house's history and the family who resided there; "The Saga of Family Missroon" (transcript of manuscript by Rutledge Parker Butler); HCF correspondence related to Omar Shrine Temple's application to build a parking deck (1976).Container
Folder 1Notes
Date: Various
Container: Box 2Title
Excavations on the Site of Granville Bastion (1704)Description
Address of Samuel Lapham to the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of SC (1937) entitled "Excavations on the Site of Granville Bastion (1704)." Includes drawing of the Granville Bastion photo of author standing on a part of the Wall. ("The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of South Carolina, Annual Court held April 24, 1937 at The Laurels, Dorchester County, South Carolina.)"
File also contains notes on archaeology at 40 East Bay Street (1998).Creator
Lapham, Samuel, 1892-Container
Folder 2Search Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.), Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, City walls--South Carolina--Charleston, Fortification--South Carolina--Charleston, Excavations (Archaeology)--South Carolina--Charleston, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston--Remodeling for other useNotes
Date: 1937, 1998
Container: Box 2Title
Restoration and Renovation of the Missroon HouseDescription
"Restoration and Renovation of Missroon House," by architect e.e. fava in association with architects John L. Young and Phhilip H. Dufford (October, 1997). Contents include:
Introduction
Existing Plans (elevations, floor plans, sections)
Schematic Plan Proposal (elevations, floor plans
Architectural Pricing (preliminary pricing for architectural work)
Report of Structural and Architectual Investigation (historic construction materials, field observations, seismic considerations, recommendations, photographs, and drawings)
Environmental Site Assessment
Summary Pricing Totals
Reference (brief history of the Missroon House, newspaper articles, copy of photograph.
Separate "Furnitue Inventory" also in file.
File also contains packet of information about the two architectural candidates being considered for the project by HCF's Board of Trustees.Date(s) of Creation
1997Container
Folder 3Search Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.)--Maintenance and repair, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston--Maintenance and repair, Historic Charleston Foundation, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston--Remodeling for other useNotes
Container: Box 2Title
Omar Shrine TempleDescription
The Omar Shrine, a fraternal Masonic order, purchased the building now known as 40 East Bay Street (currently named the Missroon House) for its temple ca. 1925.
Contains miscellaneous documents mostly pertaining to the time period when the building was used as the Omar Shrine Temple and chiefly consists of correspondence and other documentation dated in the mid-1970s relating to the request to place fill material in the Charleston Harbor for the construction of a parking area. Documentation also includes historical research (abstract of title), plats, and drawings of proposed fill and parking area. Plats include (1) 1947 plat showing a portion of the property, (2) an undated and unattributed plat featuring the Granville Bastion, and (3) plat ca. 1880s, unattributed, showing wharves, sheds, buildings (now gone), and the Carolina Yacht Club (date estimated -- 40 East Bay is identified as "Tr. Est. Kate L. Trenholm and children"); appraisal of the Omar Shrine Temple property dated 6/27/1995 (prior to HCF's purchase from the Carolina Yacht Club (includes photographs of the Missroon House and "south property," including interiors).Container
Folder 4Search Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.), Wharves--Plats, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonNotes
Date: Various
Container: Box 2Title
Cross-Section Microscopy Report, Missroon House Dining RoomDescription
Report by Susan L. Buck, conservator and paint analyst, on the identification of sequence, color, and composition of paints on the woodwork and cornice in the Drawing Room of the Missroon House, done by cross-section analysis.Creator
Buck, Susan L.Date(s) of Creation
2001Container
Folder 6Subjects
Drawing roomsSearch Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.)--Maintenance and repair, House painting--South Carolina--Charleston--History, Paint--Analysis--Case studies, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston--Maintenance and repair, Historic Charleston FoundationNotes
Container: Box 2Title
Omar Shrine Temple: AppraisalDescription
"An Appraisal of the Omar Shrine Temple Property, 44 East Battery, Charleston, South Carolina." Prepared for Mr. Batson L. Hewitt, Jr., Chairman Long Range Planning Committee, Carolina Yacht Club. Prepared by Appraisal consultants, Inc. "As of June 27, 1995" (prior to HCF's purchase from the Carolina Yacht Club. Includes photographs of the Missroon House and "south property," including interiors.Date(s) of Creation
1995Container
Folder 5Notes
Container: Box 2Title
HCF Fundraising PublicationsDescription
"Missroon House: Restoration and Renovation of 40 East Bay." Two versions, 1997 (may be draft) and June 1998. Contents include Introduction -- Historic Charleston Foundation (mission, etc.) -- Brief History of the Missroon House -- Plans for Restoration -- Plans -- Budget -- Memorial and Naming Opportunities -- Donor Recognition -- Ways to Give -- 1998 Board of Trustees. Folder also includes brochure entitled "Ways to Give: Restoration of the Missroon House."Creator
Historic Charleston FoundationContainer
Folder 7Subjects
Fund raisingSearch Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.)--Conservation and restoration, Historic Charleston FoundationNotes
Date: 1997, 1998
Container: Box 2Title
Repairs and Building AssessmentsDescription
File contians "A Conditions Survey of the Basement of the Historic Charleston Foundation Quarters Missroon House," by 4SE, Inc. (Lyles McBratney, Ty Atkins, Craig M. Bennett, Jr.) with brief description of the building; findings (condition of brick masonry walls and piers, wood floor joists and girders, reinforced concrete slab); conclusions; and photographs of the exterior of the Missroon House and of the basement interior. Also contains email from Winslow Hastie regarding the 2017 repairs to the building.Date(s) of Creation
2008Container
Folder 8Search Terms
Missroon House (Charleston, S.C.)--Conservation and restorationNotes
Container: Box 2