196 Tradd Street (Chisolm Rice Mill)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Chisolm Rice Mill, 1893: Origformat: Image from Publicati
Chisolm Rice Mill, 1893

Origformat: Image from Publicati

Name/Title

196 Tradd Street (Chisolm Rice Mill)

Entry/Object ID

TRADD.196.1

Scope and Content

Constructed ca. 1830. After an 1826 fire destroyed a sawmill on this site, the Chisolm family completed a large masonry rice and lumber mill complex. Located at the western edge of Tradd Street, it looked out over the marshes of the Ashley River. Although damaged in a fire in 1859, the mill was subsequently rebuilt and continued to operate until it was virtually destroyed in the hurricane of 1911, an event which also dealt a final blow to the rice industry in the Lowcountry. Acquired first by the U.S. Lighthouse Department for its headquarters and later by the U.S. Coast Guard, this property continues in the hands of the latter service. The mill's main block, a four-story building with a cental pedimented pavilion, arched windows, and decorative quoins, surmounted by a cupola, no longer survives. Nonetheless the Coast Guard uses the remaining west wing, a three-story brick building, as a storage area, machine shops, and a post exchange. A two-story building constructed ca. 1915 serves as headquarters for the base. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains research report, including photographs and maps (Pemberton, 2020). Also referred to as Chisolm's Rice Mill, 200 Tradd.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

TRADD.196.

Source or Donor

196 Tradd Street (Chisolm Rice Mill)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Tradd Street, Chisolm's Rice Mill (Charleston, S.C.), Rice mills--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architecture--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

Relationships

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (as 200 Tradd, see Abstract), pg. 331-221

General Notes

Note

Notes: Image in this record from The Art Work of Charleston, 2006.007.47.

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Create Date

February 27, 2020

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023