Name/Title
47 Gadsden Street (Herman Esdorn House)Entry/Object ID
GADSDEN.047.1Scope and Content
Constructed before 1872. The Herman Esdorn House is a Charleston single house in miniature, given an "L" shape by the attachment if its former kitchen building. It was built by Herman Esdorn soon after he returned from service in the Confederate Army. Esdorn also built on the property a one-story frame building in which he operated a grocery store and saloon. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)
File contains house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston (1984) and City of Charleston Tour Guide Training Manual (2011); floor plan (1995), with key to 20 photographs (see GADSDEN.047.2).Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
GADSDEN.047.Source or Donor
47 Gadsden Street (Herman Esdorn House)Acquisition Method
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Gadsden Street, Harleston Village, Historic buildings--South Carolina--CharlestonArchive Details
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1 File FolderArchive Notes
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Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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February 7, 2023Location
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PF Box 42Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Container
2Shelf
Prop File Shelves, Property File ShelvesRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
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Notes
GADSDEN.047.2a-t, GADSDEN.047.3General Notes
Note
Notes: Floor plan and photographs provided by Kevin Eberle via email:
From: Kevin R. Eberle
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 4:35 PM
To: Emmons, Karen
Subject: 47 Gadsden Street
Way back in 1995, I was getting ready to graduate from law school, and I signed a contract to buy 47 Gadsden St. It was a tiny house in pretty sad state, but it was really interesting. I think that the original building was a Charleston freeman's cottage style house that ran perpendicular to Gadsden St. and was set way back from the street, leaving a really deep front yard. Then, there was a second building of two room that had been connected to the house at some point, forming an L-shaped house. Between the two halves was a really dumpy 1950s rec room or something.
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In May 1995, I went through the house right before closing and snapped a bunch of pictures of it. Since then, someone else bought the house and totally restored it. They also removed the connector room and built back a two story space. It looks very quaint now and very nicely kept, but I've never been back inside to see how it was changed around.
I thought you might like to have a set of those photos from May 1995 that I took of the "before condition." I have also drawn up a rough floorplan of the house that I have annotated with circled numbers 1 through 20 to show the location and direction I was facing when I took the 20 pictures. Otherwise, it might be hard to figure out exactly how they all fit together.
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KevinCreated By
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May 15, 2008Updated By
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February 17, 2023