Name/Title
1 Meeting Street (George Robertson House)Entry/Object ID
MEETING.001.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1846. George Robertson built this house on the site of Senator Ralph Izard's late-18th century town house destroyed in a fire some years earlier. Izard's mansion was designed by James Hoban, architect of the White House. Robertson's later side-hall plan house, among the largest in Charleston, included the most recent innovations. The primary entrance from Meeting Street boasts splendid double doors with glazed panels and flanking cast-iron lanterns. The piazza is masked on the east for the entire three floors. After the Civil War, the Ross family acquired the house and Miss Mary Jane Ross filled the dwelling with exotic art objects and splendid decoration in the Victorian manner. At her death in 1922, her will attempted to leave the house in trust as a museum, but the provisions were struck down by the State Supreme Court in 1944 and most of the collection sold at auction.
File contains FOHG house history (2003); newspaper articles (including DYKYC, and Mercury 2013) (one with illustration of original Ralph Izard house [poor quality copy]); title page of book Ross Memorial Museum compiled by Annie M. James and newspaper article (1934) about the Ross Collection; document entitled "Historic Evolution of 1 Meeting Street" showing the development of the property through maps; excerpt from book The Doors and Gates of Charleston (Thompson) showing photos of details; index to HABS photograph documentation.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
MEETING.001.Source or Donor
1 Meeting Street (George Robertson House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Meeting Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, Historic buildings--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 68Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
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Notes
2009.010.1.22, MEETING.001.2, MEETING.001.3Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 251Created By
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May 10, 2010Updated By
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February 17, 2023