20 Queen Street (Footlight Players Workshop)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

20 Queen Street: Origsize: ~3x4; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
20 Queen Street

Origsize: ~3x4; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

20 Queen Street (Footlight Players Workshop)

Entry/Object ID

QUEEN.020.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1830; rehabilitated mid-1930s. This 2-story building, built as a cotton warehouse in about 1830 by Arthur Kiddle, retains a high degree of its original exterior character with its arched ground floor openings, gabled parapet with a central lunette, and weathered coat of lime and sand stucco. Running 140 feet to the rear along Philadelphia Alley, once called Cow Alley, the building served as a warehouse until 1932. The Footlight Players, founded as a community theatre effort, acquired the building through the generosity of Eliza Duncan Kammerer, a preservationist and philanthropic figure in Charleston's artistic renaissance. The theater seats nearly 300 and a wood carving from the Academy of Music hangs over the stage. The Footlight Players presented the last production at the Academy on King Street before its destruction. The group moved to the Dock Street Theatre in 1954 and retained this building for training and for productions by other groups. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains brief narrative history (1989, unattributed); chain-of-title (1859 to 1932); page from 1960 Preservation Progress with photo.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

QUEEN.020.

Source or Donor

20 Queen Street (Footlight Player's Workshop)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theaters

Search Terms

Queen Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files. Level of Description: Folder

Location

Location

Building

Missroon/Archives/Property File Shelves

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PF Box 85

Building

Missroon/Archives/Property File Shelves

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2009.013.15, 2011.022.15, 2012.002.077, 2014.015.04, QUEEN.020.2 Related Units of Description: See photograph "Looking West on Queen Street," QUEEN.GEN.2.

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 125-126

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 24, 2011

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023