Name/Title
22 South Battery (Nathaniel Russell Middleton House)Entry/Object ID
SBATTERY.022.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1857-58. Nathaniel Russell Middleton who served as city treasurer and later as president of the College of Charleston, built the substantial 3½ story house at 22 South Battery in 1857-58 after demolishing a portion of an 18th century double tenement on the site. Middleton, the grandson of wealthy merchant Nathaniel Russell, married Anne DeWolfe of Bristol, Rhode Island. This stuccoed brick house is fronted by a 3-story piazza with fluted Doric columns on the first floor and fluted Corinthian columns on the upper stories. Each window on the second and third floors of the piazza opens through transomed French doors. The elegant second-floor double drawing rooms retain their original plasterwork and are reached via an impressive side staircase. There was extensive earthquake damage in 1886, and Middleton's detailed specifications for repair work to the South Battery house still survive. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains FOHG house histories (1997, 2004); newspaper article (1975? DYKYC); drawing of north elevation (Historic Preservation Consultants (undated).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
SBATTERY.022.Source or Donor
22 South Battery (Nathaniel Russell Middleton House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
South Battery, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
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 95Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Middleton, Nathaniel RussellRelated Entries
Notes
2004.020.103, SBATTERY.022.2
Related Units of Description: HABS Documentation of the South Battery, SBATTERY.GEN.1A-B
Photo of Nathaniel Russell Middleton, MEETING.051.23Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 269-270Created By
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March 20, 2012Updated By
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February 17, 2023