Name/Title
34 Meeting Street (Daniel Elliott Huger House)Entry/Object ID
MEETING.034.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1760; some alterations ca. 1795-1800, ca. 1850, ca. 1900. The lots on which this substantial double-pile house was constructed were subdivided in 1759 from the Eveleigh House property at 39 Church Street. The purchaser was Capt. John Bull (1693-1767) of Bull's (now Coosaw) Island. The Bull dwelling, rented by Lord William Campbell in 1775, is one of the few royal governors' houses to survive from the colonial period. A room-by-inventory was taken in April 1777 by Campbell's wife's family and filed later with the British government as a claim. On the first floor was "The Passage, Parlour The Breakfast, Parlour The Dining, Library, and Steward's Room." The second floor included, on the front of the house, the "Dining Room" and "Drawing Room" and, behind these, bed chambers. The third floor included bed chambers for secretary, housekeeper, servants, and the nursery, with the loft above all. Outbuildings included the kitchen with its loft, coach house, and stables. The latter building does not survive, but the rest of the property and the rooms in the main house are essentially intact. Somewhat damaged in the shelling of the city in 1864 and sacked by Union troops in 1865, the dwelling was eventually repaired. It was sold in 1795 to the Morris family and in 1818 to Francis K. Huger. As of 1997, his descendants occupy it to the present day. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains FOHG house histories (undated, 1995); other narrative histories; house history from Vernacular Architecture of Charleston (see Media link); newspaper articles (including 1975, 1976 DYKYC); house history from Sixty Famous Houses of South Carolina; house histories from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston and Architectural Guide to Charleston; excerpt from The Dwelling Houses of Charleston; house history from The Vernacular Architecture of Charleston and the Lowcountry; measured plan (1st and 2nd floors); College of Charleston Candlelight Tour garden history (1970); photocopy of photograph of exterior (unattributed, undated).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
MEETING.034.Source or Donor
34 Meeting Street (Daniel Elliott Huger House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Meeting Street, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, Loutrel Briggs garden, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files
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Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 69Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
2005.004.025, 2017.005.8, MEETING.034.2, MEETING.034.3, MEETING.034.4, MEETING.034.5, MEETING.034.6, MEETING.034.7Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 257-258Created By
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