14 Elizabeth Street (Sarah Rutledge Hort House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

14 Elizabeth Street: Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
14 Elizabeth Street

Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

14 Elizabeth Street (Sarah Rutledge Hort House)

Entry/Object ID

ELIZABETH.014.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1860. The spinster Sarah Rutledge Hort's house, with its high quality Greek Revival design, exceptional brickwork, and large scale, stands significantly apart from its simpler wooden neighbors. Miss Hort acquired the vacant lot at 14 Elizabeth Street, a property formerly held for investment by planter William Matthews, from one of several short-term owners. With Hort's death at the end of the Civil War the house passed to her executor before its purchase in 1882 by grocer Henry Bulwinkle, whose descendants owned the property for nearly a century. The gable-ended building with corner quoining and brownstone window sills and lintels follows the side-hall double-parlor plan popular for the city's larger houses in the antebellum period. The interior of the house features original marble mantels on both floors and several large plaster ceiling medallions. File contains FOH house history (1991); newspaper article (undated DYKYC); handwritten staff research "source notes" (scant).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

ELIZABETH.014.

Source or Donor

14 Elizabeth Street (Sarah Rutledge Hort House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Elizabeth Street, Mazyckborough and Wraggborough, 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 41

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

Related Units of Description: 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. 602-603

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

May 6, 2008

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023