Name/Title
183-197 East Bay Street (Lodge Alley Project)Entry/Object ID
EBAY.183-197.1Scope and Content
Variously constructed 1797-1890; rehabilitated 1982-86. This site is the East Bay Street end of what became the Lodge Alley Project. This project combined a collection of stores and warehouses bounded by Cumberland Street, State Street, East Bay Street, and Lodge Alley, into restaurants, stores, and an inn (on the upper story of the northern row). In the 19th and early-20th centuries most of these buildings served wholesale grocers, commission merchants, and rice dealers. The youngest structure, 183-185 East Bay Street, is a three-story building built for the grocers W.C. Marjenhoff and O.T. Wieters. The Italianate style facade of 187-189 East Bay, with its cast-iron Corinthian pilasters on the 1st floor and Tuscan pilasters above supporting a massive entablature and shaped parapet, masks a building constructed in 1845 by Etienne Poincignon incorporating brick houses built ca. 1800 by Samuel Cordes and Samuel Porcher. The Flemish bonded brickwork of these structures is visible along the adjacent Lodge Alley. The three-story building at 191 East Bay began as a single house constructed ca. 1800 by planter and merchant Theodore Gaillard. Its cast-iron storefront and window lintels date from its renovation after the earthquake by Bernard O'Neill and Sons, wholesale grocers and rice factors, who owned several large plantations supplying rice and cotton as well as truck farms by 1900, giving them "a trade all over the South Atlantic States." Isaac Barrett built 195 East Bay in the 1850s contemporary with the double building of James Walker at 197-199 East Bay Street, both retaining their cast-iron storefronts. The three-story corner edifice at 201-203 East Bay Street with its distinctive gable parapet was built in the 1850s by S.S. Farrar and Company grocers from the design of architect Francis D. Lee. Its successor firm, H. Bischoff and Company, boasted that their complex stretching the full block along Cumberland Street gave them 78,000 square feet of floored surface for their various specialty departments. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
Building number fluctuates from the end of the 19th century to the turn of the 20th century. See Sanborn Maps.
File contains Part 1 certification form (National Register) for Lodge Alley, 54 State Street; Part 2 certification form (National Register) for Lodge Alley, 50 State Street (rehabilitation of Bldg. B); newspaper article about the halting of the project; two captioned newspaper photographs about restoration of the building (1961); copy of photograph of Carolina Grocery Company, which ca. 1900 was numbered 195 East Bay Street; description of The Carolina Grocery Company from "Resources & Attractions of Charleston" (ca. 1898) with photo of The Carolina Grocery Company (195 East Bay Street) and of Thomas Wilson, proprietor (poor quality but original book is at Charleston Library Society); building histories from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston (183-185 East Bay, 187-189 East Bay, 191 East Bay Street, 195 East Bay Street, and 197-199 East Bay Street).
Image in this record is from document in the Property File, showing buildings numbered 193-195 East Bay Street ca. 1900 (building numbers have since changed).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
EBAY.183-197.Source or Donor
183-197 East Bay Street (Lodge Alley Project)Acquisition Method
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East Bay Street, Lodge Alley, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files
Level of Description: FolderLocation
Location
Shelf
Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 36Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Related Entries
Notes
2004.021.039, 2011.022.4, EBAY.183-197.2, EBAY.195.1
Related Units of Description: Property files for Lodge Valley Inn (easement property) a/k/a 52-54 State Street, in PF Box 37
Preservation Consultants files (187-191 East Bay and for 54 State Street) (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 115-116Created By
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February 16, 2023