Murray Boulevard (General)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Murray Boulevard Under Construction: Origformat: Print-Photographic
Murray Boulevard Under Construction

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Name/Title

Murray Boulevard (General)

Entry/Object ID

MURRAY.GEN.1

Scope and Content

Murray Boulevard is named for Andrew Buist Murray, a native of Charleston who was an orphan but became a highly successful businessman and generous philanthropist and public benefactor. The area back of the Waterfront Boulevard embraced 47 acres of mud flats between the original shoreline and the sea wall, from the West End of White Point Gardens to the West End of Tradd Street. Filling in the mud flats, begun by the city in 1909 completed reclamation of this area, completed by 1911, and the tract was developed into building lots. At Murray's suggestion, East Battery was linked with the new boulevard by extending the seawall south of White Point Gardens. This created a riverside boulevard over a mile long. Murray contributed about 50 per cent of the cost of the development (Source: Charleston Streets website.) File contains newspaper article about the history of Murray Boulevard (Mercury, June 2013); draft of FOHG house history for 64 Murray (2006) and brief history (unattributed, undated).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

MURRAY.GEN.

Source or Donor

Murray Boulevard (General)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Murray Boulevard, Streets--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 78

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2016.002.001 Related Units of Description: Report "Murray Boulevard: A Historic Resource Survey of the Lower Western Peninsula" (Farrar, Steifel, 2010), 2016.002.001

Created By

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Create Date

January 6, 2014

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023