Name/Title
4 Elliott Street (David Saylor House)Entry/Object ID
ELLIOTT.004.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1778; restored 1986. This house survives as one of the only 18th-century Charleston single houses to which a later owner never added piazzas. The asymmetrical facade and narrow 2-bay street elevation of the 3-story brick building are reminiscent of Moxon's 1694 pattern book, Mechanick Exercises, showing the plan of a town house. The house retains its left doorway formerly leading to a shop, and the family entrance on the west opens to a stair hall rising to upper floors that still retain much of their original woodwork, including paneled chimney walls and cypress interior partitions. It is thought that this dwelling was rebuilt almost immediately after the fire of 1778 by the cooper David Saylor and his partner William McKimmy. Saylor owned a smaller structure on the lot to the east as well. With its off-center doorway and interior molding profiles, the Saylor house definitely precedes the full advent of the Neoclassical architecture of post-Revolutionary Charleston. Surviving in a dilapidated but almost original state, the house was purchased and restored in the mid-1980s. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains report by Robert P. Stockton, "The David Saylor House: A History"; house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston; house history from Vernacular Architecture of Charleston and the Lowcountry; architectural drawings of the east, west, north, and south elevations (undated, unattributed); 1785 SC Weekly Gazette announcement about the relocation of David Saylor's business.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
ELLIOTT.004.Source or Donor
4 Elliott Street (David Saylor House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Elliott Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive 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 41Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Related Entries
Notes
ELLIOTT.004.2, ELLIOTT.004.3a-c, ELLIOTT.004.4a-b, ELLIOTT.004.5
Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (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. 116-117Created By
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May 6, 2008Updated By
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February 17, 2023