Name/Title
42 State Street (William Pritchard Dove House)Entry/Object ID
STATE.042.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1816-18; restored 1957. William Pritchard Dove, grandson of an important 18th century shipbuilder and wharf owner and himself a ship fitter by trade, built this stuccoed brick house after acquiring a lot at the corner of State Street and Lodge Alley and another on Lodge Alley from merchant Joseph Flint. Dove's daughters sold the property in 1836 to the wealthy merchant James Ross who held it as rental property. By the 20th century the dwelling had declined with the rest of the block to warehouse usage. In the 1950s Robert N.S. Whitelaw, director of the Gibbes Museum of Art and chief founder of Historic Charleston Foundation, purchased the house with his wife, the preservationist and art historian Patti Foos Whitelaw. In their subsequent restoration they helped encourage the restoration of the State Street area. Federal details ornament the exterior of the Dove House, including stucco quoins, keystones above the windows, belt courses, and surmounting hipped roof. The interior retains its important second-floor woodwork, including a notable wainscoting with guilloche (intersecting circles) molding probably derived from the late-18th century pattern books of William and James Paine. First-floor woodwork and a marble-paved entry were salvaged by the Whitelaws from demolished uptown buildings and reused here. The innovative garden effectively uses the brick wall of old "Lodge" in the alley as a backdrop.
File contains FOHG garden history (1991); historical research report (L. Louis Green, 1971); newspaper article about the restoration (1957).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
STATE.042.Source or Donor
42 State Street (William Pritchard Dove House)Acquisition Method
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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: FolderLocation
Location
Shelf
Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Location
Container
PF Box 99Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Related Entries
Notes
STATE.042.2a-c, STATE.042.3Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 135-136Created By
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April 24, 2012Updated By
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February 17, 2023