29 Legare Street (Rev. Paul Trapier Gervais House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

29 Legare Street: Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic
29 Legare Street

Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

29 Legare Street (Rev. Paul Trapier Gervais House)

Entry/Object ID

LEGARE.029.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1835; restored with addition 1995-97. In 1835, the Reverend Gervais apparently reused the foundation and basement story of an 18th century house, built by the organist and composer Benjamin Yarnold. Standing 3½ stories above the basement, the simple frame, Greek Revival dwelling retains its original double-tiered Tuscan columned piazza and simple Greek Revival entry architrave and piazza screen. The original lot measured 300 feet in depth, 280 feet today. Succeeding owners included the Robinson, Memminger, Rhett, and Gaud families. In the 1890s Capt. Thomas Pinckney and his wife Camilla Scott Pinckney rented the Gervais house. Here in 1895 their daughter, Josephine Pinckney, a nationally renowned writer and poet, was born. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains SC Historical Society Tour house history (1975); "Cultural Resources Monitoring of Construction Excavations at 29 Legare Street" (archaeological report by Patrick Morgan, et al., 2005); photocopy of article "Historic Schools of Legare Street" by Sarah Fick (Preservation Progress, v. 54, n. 1).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

LEGARE.029.

Source or Donor

29 Legare Street (Rev. Paul Trapier Gervais 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 62

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Location

Container

2

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

LEGARE.029.2, LEGARE.029.3, LEGARE.029.4

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 248

General Notes

Note

Notes: Formerly the site of the Gaud School.

Created By

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Create Date

February 8, 2010

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023