Name/Title
67 Smith Street (Col. Simon Magwood House)Entry/Object ID
SMITH.067.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1818-24. Col. Simon Magwood was an Anglo-Irish immigrant who came to Charleston after the Revolution, constructed wharves along the Cooper River waterfront, and also served as a state senator. He built this 2½ story Charleston single house on a raised, stuccoed basement. An original pedimented door architrave accesses an arcaded ground story and stairway leading to the principal tier of the south piazza. A fanlighted doorway provides access from the piazza to an elaborate interior, with late-Neoclassical and early-Greek Revival plaster and wood decoration (sometimes referred to as Regency style). A paneled parapet with a modillioned cornice shields the roof of the piazza from the house. The gabled roof, with its closed tympanum on the street side, has a projecting pediment on the south side. The central lunette window was lost many years ago. Magwood built a similar dwelling for his son at 63 Smith Street. This house has nearly identical pedimented window heads but a simpler arcaded double-tiered piazza on its south side. Although Magwood's daughter and son-in-law sold 67 Smith Street in 1863, his descendants retained 63 Smith until 1905. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains historical/chain-of-title research and supporting documentation (Sarah Fick, 2008) including SC Dept. of Archives and History architectural survey form, household inventory(?), biographical information about Simon Magwood (excerpt from unidentified book).
No photos on file. Image in this record is from document in the Property File.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
SMITH.067.Source or Donor
67 Smith Street (Col. Simon Magwood House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Smith Street, 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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Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 91Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 565Created By
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February 13, 2012Updated By
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February 17, 2023