290-292 King Street (Miller, Ripley and Company Buildings)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

290-292 King Street: Origformat: Document/Photocopy; Resolution: 75 dpi
290-292 King Street

Origformat: Document/Photocopy; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

290-292 King Street (Miller, Ripley and Company Buildings)

Entry/Object ID

KING.290-292.1

Scope and Content

Constructed 1838-39; altered 1890, 1950. Miller, Ripley and Company signed a contract with the Scottish builder/architect James Gordon to construct two, 3-story brick stores on these sites before the fire of 1838. Rebuilt immediately after the fire, as double tenements still in the Greek Revival style, 290 King Street was purchased by Samuel Johnston. Johnston added an Italianate storefront to the building as well as the pressed-metal window surrounds and a cornice placed over the surviving Greek Revival parapet grills. The Bernard family purchased the corner building at 292 King Street, and it remained in their hands until 1912 when it was passed to a company owned by the Sottile family. Remodeled in 1950 in the Art Moderne style, the structure has wide horizontal bands between floors and fluted pilasters. File containers newspaper article (1983 DYKYC); Rosen and Associates inspection report for 290 King (1988) & for 292 King (2007). No photos on file. Images in this record from document in the Property File and digital newspaper.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

KING.290-292.

Source or Donor

290-292 King Street (Miller, Ripley and Company Buildings)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Commercial buildings

Search Terms

King Street, Corner store, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Associated Material: 1884 plat at RMC's office, possibly numbered C20-74.

Location

Location

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PF Box 53

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

Related Units of Description: King Street Survey (KING.GEN.001) and King Street "General" files (KING.GEN.002)

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 374

General Notes

Note

Notes: Image #2 in this record from Feb. 21, 1865, Charleston Mercury.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 17, 2009

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

May 24, 2023