44 South Battery (Johnston House)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

44 South Battery, ca. 1996: Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
44 South Battery, ca. 1996

Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

44 South Battery (Johnston House)

Entry/Object ID

SBATTERY.044.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1835. This 3-story plantation house was built about 1835 by spinster sisters Anne and Catherine Johnston on lots left by their grandfather, McKenzie. The residence was purchased by Gen. Benjamin Huger Rutledge after the Civil, and the art historian Anna Wells Rutledge lived much of her life there. The house and its contemporary neighbor at 46 South Battery retain their original substantial wood picket fences on masonry piers and carved lattice gates. Such fences and gates tended to be more common devices for enclosure of early Charleston lots and have progressively deteriorated and disappeared from most neighborhoods in the city. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains graduate student report (Lisa Gardiner, 2019) on the history of the house, which includes historical and chain-of-title research, maps, photos, and other supporting documentation.; excerpts from a SC Historical Society Town House Tour (S.G. Stoney, 1967); house history from Architectural Guide to Charleston (by Simons & Thomas); correspondence to and from HCF (3 letters) regarding concern about the deterioration of the house (2002); Charleston County CAMA Parcel Listing (2001).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

SBATTERY.044.

Source or Donor

44 South Battery (Johnston House)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

South Battery, Suffragettes/Women's suffrage, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files. Level of Description: Folder

Location

Location

Shelf

Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PF Box 96

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

SBATTERY.044.2, SBATTERY.044.3a-b

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 273

General Notes

Note

Notes: Image #2 in this record from This is Charleston.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

March 23, 2012

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023