Name/Title
7 Coming Street and 9 Coming Street (James Drayton Johnson Houses)Entry/Object ID
COMING.007-9.1Scope and Content
Both 7 Coming Street and 9 Coming Street were constructed ca. 1850. James Drayton Johnson, a free African-American tailor whose son married the daughter of William Ellison, a wealthy African-American plantation owner in the upper Santee region, probably built these two small vernacular single houses with gable roofs in the mid-1800s. Johnson lived in the smaller of the two houses at 9 Coming Street while renting the larger at 7 Coming Street to Julius Kaufman. Although the house at 7 Coming has been fully rehabilitated in recent years, 9 Coming Street is sheathed in synthetic shingles. The Ellison-Johnson family letters survived, and the edited manuscript version, No Chariot Let Down, was published by historians Michael T. Johnson and James L. Roark in 1984. The letters provide a unique glimpse of the lives of Charleston's free black community in the decade before the Civil War. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains graduate student report on 9 Coming Street (Alissa Keller, 2009) on the history of the house, which includes historical and chain-of-title research, maps, photos, and other supporting documentation.
No additional information on 7 Coming Street in file.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
COMING.007-9.Source or Donor
7-9 Coming Street (James Drayton Johnson Houses)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Coming Street, Harleston Village, African American history / Black history, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--Housing--South Carolina--Charleston, Vernacular architecture--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 30Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 516-517General Notes
Note
Tag Date: 2017-12-12 15:58:55Created By
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February 17, 2023