93 East Bay Street (James Cook House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

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

Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 100 dpi

Name/Title

93 East Bay Street (James Cook House)

Entry/Object ID

EBAY.093.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1782-87; altered 1836; restored and renovated 1941, early 1990s. This house was built to replace the house and shop with a Flemish gable that belonged to the Tory Fenwicke Bull, destroyed in the 1778 fire. James Cook purchased the property in 1778 and completed the present house within a decade. The ground story was rented for various mercantile uses while Cook's widow, who had subsequently remarried, lived upstairs until her death in 1826. Passing to Moses Hyams, a commission merchant, in 1836, the house was subsequently remodeled with a Greek Revival facade. Susan Pringle Frost purchased the building in 1920 and sold it to the McGowans, who restored it in 1941 along with several other houses in this block. The 3-story stucco dwelling rises to an original hipped roof with a single projecting dormer. Most of the interior of the building has been lost, and a balcony was added to the central bay of the second story in a recent renovation. Loutrel Briggs designed the present garden in the 1940s. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house history (1968); other narrative history.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

EBAY.093.

Source or Donor

93 East Bay Street (James Cook House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

East Bay Street, Loutrel Briggs garden, Rainbow Row, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Historic gardens--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 35

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

EBAY.093.2a-b, EBAY.093.3, EBAY.093.4a-h Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (89-107 East Bay) (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. 104

Created By

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Create Date

November 14, 2007

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023