22-28 Queen Street (Johnson's Row)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

22-28 Queen Street: Origsize: 8x10; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
22-28 Queen Street

Origsize: 8x10; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

22-28 Queen Street (Johnson's Row)

Entry/Object ID

QUEEN.022-28.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1802; renovated and restored 1940-50. The row houses at 22-28 Queen are reminders of Charleston's post-Revolutionary successes. The city's economy, prosperity, and middle class burgeoned after the war, creating problems for builders seeking to accommodate the large numbers of merchants and professionals wishing to reside near the commercial activities of the port. Attached row houses that could be massed on relatively small plots of land responded to this demand. This sequence of row houses on Queen Street is distinguished by its fine interior woodwork, perhaps a result of its distinguished builders and developers, William Johnson Sr. and William Johnson Jr. The elder Johnson came to Charleston from New York in 1741 and as a prosperous blacksmith became a member of the Sons of Liberty. After the Revolution he became a planter and served in the South Carolina House of Representatives. The younger Johnson graduated from Princeton and after various judgeships and a stint as Speaker in the South Carolina House was named by Thomas Jefferson as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, serving until his death in 1834. The 3-story stuccoed brick dwellings retain their original second-story fenestration with three-bays each and a continuous belt course between the second and third stories. A continuous gable roof provides each tenement with two front dormers and two rear dormers and shelters two large chimneys. The arched openings on the ground story date to the original renovations of this row in the 1940s and 1950s. The westernmost tenement at 28 Queen Street retains its corner quoining and a wrought-iron balcony. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories for 26 Queen Street (1974 and undated); newspaper articles (1957, 1976 DYKYC); page from 1960 Preservation Progress with photograph; photocopies of two photographs, ca. 1970s.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

QUEEN.022-28.

Source or Donor

22-28 Queen Street (Johnson's Row)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

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

2004.021.026, 2013.003.12, PHILADELPH.001.1, PHILADELPH.001.2, QUEEN.022-28.2, QUEEN.028.1 Related Units of Description: See ca. 1970s photographs 2007.017.1a #5 and 2007.017.1d #11. See photograph "Looking West on Queen Street," QUEEN.GEN.2.

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 126-127

Created By

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Create Date

August 24, 2011

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023