Name/Title
~293 East Bay Street / 295 East Bay Street (Nathaniel Heyward House)Entry/Object ID
EBAY.293-295.1Scope and Content
Constructed by 1788; date of demolition unknown, possibly in the 1920s. The house was one of the few larger houses built along East Bay Street during the development of the neighborhood known as Middlesex. Consisting of three distinct sections, the Nathaniel Heyward House was a frame house with a portico on the west side with a closed triangular pediment and wide corniced, both of which were decorated with widely spaced medillions. Two more columns on each side extended to the second section in the shape of a rectangle. The entryway was a three-bay square. Behind this section was a longer section with shaved corners so that the back of the house looked like a stretched-out octagon. Several brick outbuildings stood behind the house. The property was surrounded by a brick wall. At some point, two mantels from the house were installed in the principal room of 39 Church Street where they remained through the 1950s and are currently on exhibit at the offices of the Clemson/CofC Graduate Program in Historic Preservation.
The building on the site today is a one-story brick building with a flat roof with wide, overhanging eaves.
File contains excerpt from On the Eve of the Charleston Renaissance; newspaper article (DYKYC, 1968); photocopy of illustration (gates) from a book (title not indicated); photocopy of 1873 plat; photocopies of photo catalog records; graduate student report (Meghan White, 2014) on the history of the building, which includes historical and chain-of-title research, maps, photos, and other supporting documentation..Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
EBAY.293-295.Source or Donor
293-295 East Bay Street (Site of the Nathaniel Heyward House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
East Bay Street, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Gadsdenboro / Gadsden Lands / Middlesex, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architectureArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
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 39Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
2005.004.018, 2006.007.37, 2011.015.26, 2017.011.10, EBAY.293-295.2, EBAY.293-295.3
Related Units of Description: See also photographs of 23-25 Society Street (Ansonborough Rehabilitation Project)
Photograph in Examples of Colonial Architecture in Charleston and Savannah, Object ID #2013.002.056Related Publications
Notes
References in Buildings of Charleston, pp. 216 and 413General Notes
Note
Tag Date: 2017-12-12 15:59:57Created By
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January 9, 2008Updated By
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February 17, 2023