Name/Title
108 Tradd Street (James McCall Ward House)Entry/Object ID
TRADD.108.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1810-23. A Charleston attorney built this small, vernacular wooden house at a substantial setback on Tradd Street. A double-tiered, Tuscan-columned piazza provides the only ornamentation to the asymmetrical four-bay front facade. After Ward's death, his widow repurchased the property when the mortgage was foreclosed by the Fellowship Society. In the 1850s John B.P. Alley, owner of a substantial undertaking establishment, purchased the property. Alley added a one-story building to the north for making coffins and lived on the site as well. Although the undertaking business ceased by 1900, his descendants, the Poulnot family, owned 108 Tradd Street until 1977. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
Three files contain documentation of the easement on the property including related correspondence and Confirmation of Understanding; Part I certification (National Register); easement appraisal; annual inspection reports, requests for alterations, and correspondence related to the management of the property, including related to archaeological investigation; deed research (unattributed, undated); city directory research notes (1816-1849); "Archaeological Investigations at 108 Tradd Street, June 1998" (Carl Steen).
See Easement Documentation Photo Files for easement donation photographs (Exh. B to Deed of Conservation Easement) and Covenant/Easement Inspection Photo Files for inspection photography.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
TRADD.108.Source or Donor
108 Tradd Street (James McCall Ward House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
Tradd Street, Easement Property, Eighteenth-Century Expansion, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
1 Gift Folder
1 Management Folder
1 History/Miscellaneous 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 104Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
TRADD.108.2, TRADD.108.3, TRADD.108.4
Related Units of Description: Easement Manager's working filesRelated Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 286Created By
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June 18, 2012Updated By
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February 17, 2023