Name/Title
64 Montagu Street (Bennett-Simons House)Entry/Object ID
MONTAGU.064.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1800-12. The wealthy lumberman Thomas Bennett Sr., a contractor and amateur architect, built this house as a family residence sometime before his death in 1814. Bennett's grandson later owned the property and sold it in 1830. Passing though the Guerard and Moultrie families, the house was acquired in 1857 by Thomas Grange Simons. A plat prepared at the same time described the lot as containing "one large three story building being the mansion house, and the outbuildings and offices to wit, one two story brick building and another brick building in one story, another one story building of wood, together with two other small buildings." The principal 2½ story wood house retains its essential form, although two-over-two windows replaced the original sashes in the late-19th century. Probably at the same time, the portico was changed to create a wide overhanging piazza. The Ionic columns at the end of the first floor stand on individual masonry piers, while a stone staircase rises to the original portico in the same arrangement as 54 Montagu Street. The brick carriage house, visible from Gadsden Street and now known as 40 Barre Street, retains its original arched openings and other fenestration despite its conversion in the 1980s to a separate residence. (Poston. Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains newspaper article (1978 DYKYC); house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
MONTAGU.064.Source or Donor
64 Montagu Street (Bennett-Simons House)Acquisition Method
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Montagu Street, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive 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 BoxShelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentLocation
Container
PF Box 78Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Related Entries
Notes
MONTAGU.064.2, MONTAGU.064.3, MONTAGU.064.4
Related Units of Description: Plats of Harleston Village, MONTAGU.054.006a-b
Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 540-541Created By
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October 12, 2010Updated By
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February 17, 2023