53 East Bay Street (The Charleston Club)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

53 East Bay Street (ca. 1960s): Origsize: 3.25x4; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
53 East Bay Street (ca. 1960s)

Origsize: 3.25x4; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

53 East Bay Street (The Charleston Club)

Entry/Object ID

EBAY.053.1

Scope and Content

Chartered in 1852 under authority of the SC General Assembly, the clubhouse was located at 45 Meeting Street on land now part of the post office parking lot, destroyed in the earthquake of 1886. The club reopened at its new location at 3 Meeting Street. Membership dwindled but in 1927, the Meeting Street clubhouse was sold and members moved to 22 South Battery. In the early 1930s, the location changed again, this time to 45 East Bay Street. Membership began to increase and in 1938, the club relocated to the middle apartment of Vanderhorst Row (78 East Bay Street). It would be 1958 until the Charleston Club owned its own building again, when it moved to 53 East Bay Street. Standing next to its slightly larger neighbor at 55 East Bay Street, this house was constructed in the mid 1780s and ornamented by a dentiled brick cornice and wrought-iron balcony with a crossed star center panel. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains newspaper article (DYKYC 1984); 20th century occupancy history from Old Codgers' Charleston Address Book; 1886 earthquake damage assessment.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

EBAY.053.

Source or Donor

53 East Bay Street (The Charleston Club)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

East Bay 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 33

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

EBAY.053.2 Related Units of Description: Probate inventory for George Reid, 12 East Bay, 1810 (see room-by-room inventories)

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 97

General Notes

Note

Notes: No Hurricane Hugo survey; file does include photo of 53½ East Bay; also slides of 53 and 53½ East Bay.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

July 6, 2007

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023