83 East Bay Street (William Stone House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

83 East Bay Street: Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 100 dpi
83 East Bay Street

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Name/Title

83 East Bay Street (William Stone House)

Entry/Object ID

EBAY.083.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1784; restored ca. 1941. Gutted in the fires of 1740 and 1778, this 4½-story house is named for William Stone, a Tory merchant who constructed the post-1740 building and retired to England during the Revolution. Apparently Stone's representatives rebuilt the damaged building almost immediately after the 1778 fire, for it was conveyed in 1784 for a price indicating its presence on the lot. The property passed through a succession of merchant owners who used the ground story as countinghouses and later as a grain and feed store, always maintaining a residence on the 3 stories above. Susan Pringle Frost restored the building in 1941 and added a balcony (brought from a State Street house) to the second story and a Colonial Revival style doorway to the front facade, replacing the 19th century storefront. At the rear of the property an early brick warehouse was demolished except for its exterior walls. These ruins serve as part of a courtyard landscape designed by Loutrel Briggs. Three files contain documentation of the easement on the property including related correspondence and Confirmation of Understanding; Part I certification (National Register); easement appraisal report; annual inspection reports, requests for alterations, and correspondence related to the management of the property; correspondence and other documentation related to the sale of the property; FOHG house histories; other narrative histories including chain-of-title researcg; newspaper articles (including DYKYC). No easement donation photographs (Exh. B to Deed of Conservation Easement) on file. See Covenant/Easement Inspection Photo Files for inspection photography.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

EBAY.083.

Source or Donor

83 East Bay Street (William Stone House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Easement Property, East Bay Street, Loutrel Briggs garden, Rainbow Row, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Historic gardens

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 Gift Folder 1 Management Folder 1 History/Miscellaneous 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 34

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2007.008.12, 2007.008.13, EBAY.083.2, EBAY.083.3, EBAY.083.4, EBAY.083.5 Related Units of Description: HALS/Loutrel Briggs Garden Survey (2007.016.1) Easement Manager's working Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 100-101

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Online Catalog

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

October 30, 2007

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 4, 2023