Name/Title
23 State Street (George Locke Building)Entry/Object ID
STATE.023.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1853; restored 1978. George Locke's 2-story store building exemplifies the ongoing quality of Charleston's brick masonry through the late antebellum period. The Flemish bond front elevation with seven bays, ornamented by brick jack arches, features an entablature with dogtoothed ornamentation. Locke operated a grocery on East Bay and built this structure as an investment. Two separate shops occupied the ground story while a family lived upstairs. In the late1970s new owners restored 23 State as a double tenement, retaining many of its interior Greek Revival features and creating a garden at the rear beyond its double-tiered piazzas.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
STATE.023.Source or Donor
23 State Street (George Locke Building)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
State Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
1 File FolderArchive Notes
Finding Aids: Index to Property Files.
Level of Description: FolderArchive Items Details
Title
FOHG house historyDate(s) of Creation
2011Title
FOHG garden historyDate(s) of Creation
2010Title
Do You Know Your Charleston?Description
newspaper articleDate(s) of Creation
1979Search Terms
DYKYCLocation
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Notes
PF Box 127Relationships
Related Entries
Notes
STATE.023.2a-b, STATE.023.3a-e
Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1
Photo STATE.025.2Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 131Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
April 23, 2012Updated By
sferguson@historiccharleston.orgUpdate Date
April 5, 2023