39 King Street (Richard Yeadon's House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

39 King Street, ca. 1920s: Origformat: Digital Image; Resolution: 72 dpi
39 King Street, ca. 1920s

Origformat: Digital Image; Resolution: 72 dpi

Name/Title

39 King Street (Richard Yeadon's House)

Entry/Object ID

KING.039.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1847. A typical 2-story stucco Charleston single house with side piazzas and a southern exposure, built on property oirginally incorporated into the parcel acquired by Miles Brewton I in 1732. Richard Yeadon, an antebellum newspaper editor and philanthropist, probably built this house in 1847 incoroporating a portion of a 1730s dwelling. It lost its third story as a result of the earthquake of 1886. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories (undated); title and historical research (L. Louis Green, 1968); FOHG garden history (1976); landscape plan (1991); copy of 1739 map showing building's location; 1886 Earthquake Damage Assessment (pdf); entry from Old Codgers Charleston Address Book (pdf).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

KING.039.

Source or Donor

39 King Street (Richard Yeadon's House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

King Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, 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 49

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

KING.039.2a-b

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), p. 231 (entry for 41 King Street) Photo of house in Old Codgers, vol. 6, before third story was lost.

General Notes

Note

Notes: Images sent to HCF by Erin Lanier, an architect working on the house. They are from photographs that were found hanging inside the house. Image 1 is identified as having been taken sometime before the 1886 Earthquake. Image 2 reflects signficant changes made later on. To date, documentation of the demolition of the third story has not been found.

Created By

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Create Date

October 8, 2008

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023