Name/Title
27 Lamboll Street (Richard Reynolds House)Entry/Object ID
LAMBOLL.027.1Scope and Content
Constructed before 1851; renovated and restored 1995. Richard F. Reynolds purchased this residence in March 1851. Reynolds owned the firm of Reynolds and Company, which manufactured carriages in Charleston. He sold the property to Thomas Savage Heyward, an auctioneer, in 1857. Elizabeth Allston Pringle described coming here to the "first big dance" held in Charleston after the Civil War and noted, "I went to the party and had a grand time, no refreshments but water, but a beautifully waxed floor, a great big cool room, that is, two opening into each other with folding doors, and a great wide piazza all round outside to walk in after dancing." In November 1869 the house was sold at a sheriff's sale to Charles O. Witte. At the turn of the 20th century Mrs. W.S. Coates operated a boardinghouse in the building. The structure became Melrose Apartments in the 1930s and during the 1940s continued as an apartment building, with tenants including the president of the Atlantic Lime Corporation, the vice president of the Standard Fertilizer Company, and a local architect with the firm of Halsey and Cummings. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains house history (HCF, undated); house history (Craig M. Bennett, undated); chain-of-title/historical research notes (undated, unattributed); plat (practically illegible); 1997 plat; photocopy of set of architectural drawings (elevations and floor plans presumably as-built but with notation that BAR application was deferred in 1995); Preservation Consultants "History of 27 Lamboll and the Gate for the Proposed Addition," with accompanying photos; Rosen and Associates inspection report (2006); excerpt from Vernacular Architecture of Charleston & the Lowcountry.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
LAMBOLL.027.Source or Donor
27 Lamboll Street (Richard Reynolds House)Acquisition Method
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Lamboll Street, Smith's Lane, 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 57Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
2011.022.84a-h, LAMBOLL.027.2, LAMBOLL.027.3, LAMBOLL.027.4Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 438-439Created By
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September 29, 2009Updated By
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February 17, 2023