Name/Title
52 Rutledge Avenue (Harriet F. Creighton House)Entry/Object ID
RUTLEDGE.052.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1913. One of Charleston's most eclectically decorated wooden houses, the Creighton House was built in the name of the wife of the owner of Charleston's largest lumber firms, the Whipple Lumber Company. Constructed at the end of the period of Queen Ann fashion, the house displays numerous elements of that architectural style. An Ionic-columned porch wraps the front and south elevations. A pediment marks the entry to the house and is flanked to the north by an octagonal tower sheathed in fish-scale-shaped shingles, topped by a conical roof and ornamented by a bulls-eye window. On the south end of the front elevation, a pedimented gable supported by brackets tops a curvilinear bay. The Creightons kept the house until 1918, when it was sold to the Poulnot family, owners of Kerrison's Department Store, who lived here for 44 years. The somewhat earlier Queen Ann style house at 50 Rutledge Avenue had been transferred by 1912 as the headquarters of the Society for the Welfare of the Aged of Charleston. This house, with its 2-story side piazza and front porch supported by turned Queen Ann columns, sports the same pattern of turret and projecting front gable but offers a contrast of an earlier example of the same architectural style.
File contains FOHG house history (undated); research notes (possibly by Harlan Greene); photocopy of 1962 plat.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
RUTLEDGE.052.Source or Donor
52 Rutledge Avenue (Harriet F. Creighton House)Acquisition Method
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Rutledge Avenue, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files.
Level of Description: FolderLocation
Location
Shelf
Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 87Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 550-551Created By
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October 5, 2011Updated By
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February 17, 2023