Name/Title
72 Pitt Street (Richard Holloway House)Entry/Object ID
PITT.072.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1827; rehabilitated 1980s. This building survives as one of several investment properties constructed or owned by the free black carpenter Richard Holloway. Holloway's extended family lived on Beaufain Street but had interests across the city. As an exhorter in the Methodist Church and a member in the elite Brown Fellowship Society, Holloway held a position of unique authority in Charleston's pre-Civil War free African American community. The high quality of wood craftsmanship exhibited in the Pitt Street house includes the double-tiered piazza with paneled parapet and a closed gabled roof with a modified version of a Venetian (Palladian) window. 72 Pitt Street is closely related to Holloway's contemporary property at 221 Calhoun Street and received a thorough rehabilitation in the 1980s.
File contains handwritten staff research "source notes" and chain-of-title research; Rosen and Associates (engineers) Hurricane Hugo damage inspection report (1989).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
PITT.072.Source or Donor
72 Pitt Street (Richard Holloway House)Acquisition Method
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Pitt Street, Radcliffeborough and Cannonborough, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--HousingArchive 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
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February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 82Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentLocation
Container
2Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 630-631Created By
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April 27, 2011Updated By
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February 17, 2023