7 Legare Street (Henry Laurens House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

7 Legare Street: Origsize: 8x10; Origformat: Print-Photographic
7 Legare Street

Origsize: 8x10; Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

7 Legare Street (Henry Laurens House)

Entry/Object ID

LEGARE.007.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1887. Built by a descendant of the Charlestonian of the same name, who served as the president of the Continental Congress, the house on this site replaced a substantial masonry building occupied in the antebellum period by Martha Laurens Roper, widow of the builder of 9 East Battery. After the earthquake the building was considered too damaged to be repaired, and Laurens built a new house on the old masonry foundation, using high-grade heart pine lumber. When complete the building stood 2½ stories tall with an unusual closed gambrel or modified mansard roof, with mansard overhangs over both its central dormer and its front door. In the mid-1930s Dr. and Mrs. Joseph I. Waring acquired the house and changed it to a mix of Georgian and Neoclassical styles. Raising the roof by one story to a pedimented gable, he added pedimented window heads over the first- and second-story windows and a Neoclassical fanlight over the front door, in addition to many other changes. Dr. Waring was one of South Carolina's leading historians, particularly expert on its early medical history, writing the book A History of Medicine in South Carolina. File contains FOHG house history (2007); other narrative history by C of C student Elizabeth Sommer (2008); Preservation Society Tour House History (2005); illustrated newspaper article (1937DYKYC); house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

LEGARE.007.

Source or Donor

7 Legare Street (Henry Laurens House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Legare 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 59

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Laurens, Henry

Related Entries

Notes

LEGARE.007.2a-c

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 240-241

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

October 9, 2009

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 16, 2023