Name/Title
16 Montagu Street (Caroline Blackwood Brown House)Entry/Object ID
MONTAGU.016.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1830; rehabilitated 1971. The daughter of George Gibbs, who also owned 12 Montagu Street, built this 3-story Charleston single house shortly after 1830. Although the house contains some holdovers from the Federal period, such as the nine-over-nine windows and the attenuated Tuscan columns of the piazza, the remnant of the original piazza door screen and the parapeted termination and flat roof relate the building to the emerging Greek Revival style. The latter two features may reflect alterations to the house completed after sale of the property in 1848 by Caroline Blackwood and her new husband, George W. Brown, to Thomas E. Baker, or after Baker's sale to the stockbroker Isaac Moise in 1851. This house, like many others in the neighborhood, was rehabilitated in the 1970s by George A. Z. Johnson.
File contains handwritten staff research "source notes" (scant).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
MONTAGU.016.Source or Donor
16 Montagu Street (Caroline Blackwood Brown House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Montagu Street, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
1 File Folder (1 p.)Archive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files
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Shelf
Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 16Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentLocation
Container
PF Box 76Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 530-531Created By
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October 6, 2010Updated By
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February 17, 2023