9 Legare Street (Harth-Macbeth House)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

9 Legare Street: Origsize: 5x7; Origformat: Print-Photographic
9 Legare Street

Origsize: 5x7; Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

9 Legare Street (Harth-Macbeth House)

Entry/Object ID

LEGARE.009.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1817-25; renovated early-1900s. William Harth originally built 9 Legare Street as a tenement. It at different times became the home of Charles Macbeth, Charleston's Civil War mayor, and William H. Brawley, U.S. district judge. Originally constructed as a large single house of 3½ stories on a high English basement, and 19th-century maps show double tiers of piazzas extending along the south elevation. By the early-20th century the front portions of the piazzas were enclosed and double-tiered bay windows had been added on the south matching a polygonal bay addition near the southwest corner of the dwelling. Pedimented window heads and other details were added as well. A substantial 2-story kitchen dependency now accessed from Gibbes Street stretches along the north elevation. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories (1993, 1995); newspaper article (DYKYC); Rosen and Associates inspection report (1991); photocopy of 1846 plat; 1886 Earthquake damage assessment; Hurricane Hugo damage assessement (pdf).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

LEGARE.009.

Source or Donor

9 Legare Street (Harth-Macbeth 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 Entries

Notes

LEGARE.009.2, LEGARE.009.3a-d

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 242

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

October 9, 2009

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023