17 Legare Street (Anthony Toomer House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

17 Legare Street: Origformat: Document/Photocopy
17 Legare Street

Origformat: Document/Photocopy

Name/Title

17 Legare Street (Anthony Toomer House)

Entry/Object ID

LEGARE.017.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1797; additions ca. 1840. Anthony Toomer, a Revolutionary War veteran and master builder, erected this dwelling as a tenement investment soon after acquiring a 40-by-296 foot lot on Legare Street in 1796. First containing a simple two-bay house with beaded weatherboarding and a low pitched roof at a substantial distance from the street line, the property was described in an 1811 advertisement as having "a two story wooden dwelling house, brick kitchen, etc. thereon." Apparently Thomas F. Purse added the a 2-story masonry addition to the front of the house, as well as a 1-story piazza with a Greek Revival transomed screen. Most of the interior of the original house, including Neoclassical wainscoting, mantel, and staircase, remain. File contains FOHG history of house (undated, 2002) and of garden histories (1992, 2010); newspaper article (DYKYC); photocopy of photo of house after 1886 Earthquake; photocopy of article "Historic Schools of Legare Street" by Sarah Fick (Preservation Progress, v. 54, n. 1); house history and census/chain-of-title research (Courtney Magill, 2014); photocopy of 1841 plat; 1816 advertisement for the sale of the property. No photographs on file. Image in this record from document in property file.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

LEGARE.017.

Source or Donor

17 Legare Street (Anthony Toomer House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Legare Street, 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 61

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 245-246

General Notes

Note

Notes: Formerly the site of Madame Petit's School for Young Ladies.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

November 18, 2009

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023