1-3 Water Street (James Chapman Tenements)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

1-3 Water Street, ca. 1996: Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi
1-3 Water Street, ca. 1996

Origsize: 4x6; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Resolution: 75 dpi

Name/Title

1-3 Water Street (James Chapman Tenements)

Entry/Object ID

WATER.001-3.1

Scope and Content

Constructed 1857. In 1847 the master in equity offered twenty-two lots, some with buildings, for auction on land formerly bounded by Vanderhorst Creek, now Water Street. James Chapman and three partners bought 17 lots including this parcel. Chapman, a commission merchant in stocks and real estate, and then resident owner of the dwelling across the street at 6 Water Street, added another small parcel and created two building lots here by 1857. The identical houses constructed by Chapman follow the Italianate or the urban version of the Italian Villa style, with central pavilions flanked by an entry bay on the east side and a screen for a masked piazza on the west. Stucco quoins on the first-floor corners become pilasters with bracketed capitals on the second story. The front gable with its dentilled cornice frames a Venetian window, and the roof behind boasts three dormers. Although rented to others by 1861, in the division of Chapman's estate his son Robert inherited 1 Water while James received 3 Water Street. Chapman descendants owned and occupied the former until 1927. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories for 1 Water Street (2002, 2005); house history (Levkoff, n.d.); FOHG house history for 3 Water Street (2007; newspaper article (1990 DYKYC); Rosen and Associates (engineers) structural inspection report (1999); flooding and house elevation narrative about 1 Water (Martin, 2021).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

WATER.001-3.

Source or Donor

1-3 Water Street (James Chapman Tenements)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Water Street, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files. Level of Description: Folder

Location

Location

Shelf

Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PF Box 109

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

WATER.001-3.2a-c, WATER.001-3.3, WATER.001-3.4a-d Related Units of Description: Easement Manager's working files Preservation Consultants files (Part I and/or Part II applications and/or photos and/or miscellaneous documentation), 2011.022.1 "Ansonborough" document box, Preservation Topics shelves See also HALS/Loutrel Briggs Garden Survey (2007.016.1).

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 149-150

Created By

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Create Date

July 31, 2013

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023