Name/Title
95 Rutledge Avenue (Grimke-Seabrook House)Entry/Object ID
RUTLEDGE.095.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1815-26. Judge John Faucheraud Grimké began construction of this house in 1815. Father of the abolitionist Grimké sisters, he lived with his family at 321 East Bay Street and probably never resided on this site. Thomas Banister Seabrook, a cotton planter from Edisto Island, completed the house and probably installed the Adamesque mantels and other decorations. The dwelling was conveyed by Seabrook's daughter, Caroline Geddes, to Edward Trenholm in 1850. Trenholm lived here briefly while finishing his own house on the south side of the lot. This house retains its original stuccoed quoining and dogtooth cornicing in its closed gable front. It has a double-tiered south piazza with an arched soffit on the principal story. Late-19th century changes to the house include the Victorian pressed-metal window heads and the two-over-two windows.
File contains FOHG house histories (1996, 2000).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
RUTLEDGE.095.Source or Donor
95 Rutledge Avenue (Grimke-Seabrook 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.
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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. 557Created By
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October 11, 2011Updated By
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February 16, 2023