Name/Title
229-233 King Street (Rachel Lazarus Buildings)Entry/Object ID
KING.229-233.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1839; various rehabilitations late 1980s. Rachel Florence Lazurus, one of a number of "sole traders" (women permitted by South Carolina equity courts to operate businesses separate from their husbands) first acquired this status in 1804 and entered the dry goods business in 1817. A woman of great strength and talent, she was the only female subscriber to the Hebrew Harmonic Society, a group that provided the funds for the installation of an organ in the rebuilt Beth Elohim Synagogue in 1841, and she bore 17 children. After the fire of 1838, Mrs. Lazurus received one of the loans under the Act for the Rebuilding of the City of Charleston and used the funds to construct these 3 buildings as tenements. Although the storefronts have been altered over the years, the 3-story stuccoed brick facades retain their original fenestration with stone lintels and sills, as well as masonry belt courses, and molded cornices. On the upper stories each structure follows the Charleston single house plan and most retain their Greek Revival mantels and staircases. Between the buildings, hyphen infills feature cast-iron panels boasting circular devices also with anthemion motifs. Cabinetmakers Martin Vogel and Francis Salvo completed a similar building of four bays next door at 235 King Street with thistle motifs in its parapet grilles. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains newspaper articles (including DYKYC), including articles about a fire at 233 King in 1981 and requests for its demolition; Rosen and Associates inspection report (2009) for 229 King & (2004) for 233 King.
Image #4 from 1967 King Street Photographic Survey.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
KING.229-233.Source or Donor
229-233 King Street (Rachel Lazarus Buildings)Acquisition Method
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King Street, Woman-operated business, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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Finding Aids: Index to Property Files
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Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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February 7, 2023Location
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Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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PF Box 53Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
KING.229-233.2, KING.229-233.3, KING.229-233.4, KING.229-233.5a-b
Related Units of Description: King Street Survey (KING.GEN.001) and King Street "General" files (KING.GEN.002)
Preservation Consultants files for 231 King and 233 King (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. 364Created By
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February 17, 2023