Name/Title
46-48 Tradd Street (James Vanderhorst House)Entry/Object ID
TRADD.046.1Scope and Content
Constructed ca. 1770; renovated 1927. Built by William Vanderhorst for his son James around 1770, this three-story stuccoed brick single house was purchased in 1927 by Alfred Hutty, the Woodstock, New York, artist, as the site for his Charleston home and studio. In order to accommodate Hutty's needs, the adjacent brick store to the west was demolished and a new entry and garden were created behind a substantial wall and corbeled brick gateposts. This has created the curious juxtaposition of a Neoclassical, fanlighted entry door beneath an original arched stair window. When Hutty first came to Charleston in the winter of 1919 he telegraphed his wife, "Come quickly, have found Heaven." His numerous engravings and woodcuts have increasingly come to symbolize the best work of the Charleston Renaissance of the 1920s, particularly his portrayals of rural African Americans and Charleston's now-vanished street vendors. The original kitchen dependency, uniquely remaining as a separate building, served as Hutty's studio and was described in the News and Courier in 1935 as having a fireplace that was "one of the city's quaintest." (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
Four files contain documentation of the easement on the property; confirmation of understanding; appraisal; mortgage subordination; Part I certification (National Register); chain-of-title research; copy of 1928 plat; excerpt from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston; graduate student research project: chain-of-title, documentation of the enslaved, documentation of outbuilding(s) (Ploehn, 2020); FOHG house histories (1983, undated/current); FOHG garden and dependence history (2009); newspaper articles (including 1932, 1936 DYKYC); "An Artist Restores an Old Dwelling" (Country Life mag., Jan. 1931); captioned photograph from Charleston Gardens by Loutrel Briggs; captioned photograph of Alfred Hutty's garden from ca. 1937 scrapbook; captioned photograph of Alfred Hutty's studio from 1939 magazine article; photocopies of HABS photos; documentation related to the 1998 open space easement (extinguished by 2019 easement).
See Easement Documentation Photo Files for easement donation photographs (Exh. B to Deed of Conservation Easement).
Files will eventually contain annual inspection reports, requests for alterations, and correspondence related to the management of the property.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
TRADD.046.Source or Donor
46 Tradd Street (James Vanderhorst House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
Tradd Street, Walnut Court, Easement Property, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
2 Gift Folders (2019 easement and extinguished 1998 easement)
1 Management Folder
1 History/Miscellaneous FolderArchive Notes
Associated Material: Photographs on Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sc0199/ and https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=Alfred+Hutty%2C+residence+at+46+Tradd+St&new=true&st=
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 101Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
2013.010.03, TRADD.046.2, TRADD.046.3
Related Units of Description: Easement Manager's working filesRelated Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 144-145Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
May 23, 2012Updated By
admin@catalogit.appUpdate Date
February 17, 2023