Name/Title
172 Tradd Street (Chisolm-Alston House)Entry/Object ID
TRADD.172.1Scope and Content
Constructed 1834-1836. Alexander Hext Chisolm acquired this site near his thriving rice mill in 1829 and built a notable Greek Revival on the site in the mid-1830s. Several experts attribute the design to Charles F. Reichardt, Prussian trained architect of the Charleston Hotel, the Washington Racecourse Grandstand, and the facade of the guard house at Meeting and Broad Streets. Corinthian columns, similar to those Reichardt designed for the Charleston Hotel and Gov. John Manning's plantation at Milford on the upper Santee River, modeled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, support the Chisolm House portico. Similar columns appear in the front door architrave and in various doorways in the front hall. William Algernon Alston, Jr., owner of five plantations in lower All Saints Parish in Georgetown County, bought the house as his town residence in 1855. Alston probably added the massive stucco wall and gates to the front of the property which faced directly over the former seawall that separated Tradd Street from the marshes of the Ashley River. This house once commanded the waterfront western edge of the city much the way the houses on Murray Boulevard dominate the Ashley River side today. The Chisolm-Alston house was purchased by a member of the DuPont family in the early 20th century and was known locally as the DuPont House for many years.
File contains FOHG house history (undated-1990s?); newspaper articles (including undated and 1978 DYKYC); brief chain-of-title research notes (1829-1974).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
TRADD.172.Source or Donor
172 Tradd Street (Chisolm-Alston House)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffLexicon
Search Terms
Tradd Street, Lower Peninsula, 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 106Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Reichardt, Charles F.Related Entries
Notes
2006.013.2A, 2020.005.7-8, TRADD.172.2
Related Units of Description: Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1Related Publications
Notes
Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 328-329Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
July 3, 2012Updated By
admin@catalogit.appUpdate Date
February 17, 2023