Name/Title
94 Smith Street (Morris Brown House)Entry/Object ID
SMITH.094.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1818. The Reverend Morris Brown built this house as an investment property after acquiring the lot from master carpenter Richard Holloway, a fellow member of the free African American community. Holloway himself may have built this structure, as he did for his own investment property next door at 96 Smith Street. Brown, whose church was implicated in the Denmark Vesey slave insurrection plot, had to leave the state in 1822. He moved to Philadelphia and eventually became a founding bishop of the A.M.E. Church. Wide weatherboarding, six-over-six windows, and an open gable roof characterize this simple Charleston single house. It retains its original double-tiered piazza and an early-Greek Revival piazza door screen. An ell addition at the rear was added in the late-19th century. Brown, while residing in Philadelphia, sold the house to William Gibson in 1829. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains newspaper article (1977 DYKYC); house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston (1984).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
SMITH.094.Source or Donor
94 Smith Street (Morris Brown House)Acquisition Method
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Search Terms
Smith Street, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--HousingArchive 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
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February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 92Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentLocation
Container
2Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 567Created By
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February 13, 2012Updated By
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February 16, 2023