The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina

Book

Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina

Entry/Object ID

2012.010.085

Description

The biography of a great city, done in the grand stately manner of the city itself. Includes photographs, maps, and other illustrations. Images of Charleston buildings include the following; see Media Link for specific address, page number, and year of image: Gov. Thomas Bennett House (house, piazza, hall door, interior doorway, staircase Daniel Ravenel House, interior room w/ mantel Thomas Grange Simons House, mantel George Eveleigh House (house, drawing room, floor plans) Capers-Motte House (house, streetscape, kitchen building) Robert Brewton House (drawing) "Old" St. Philip's Church, 1753 illustration William Ravenel House before and after 1886 Earthquake Edmonston-Alston House (drawing) View of Charlestown 1780 showing the Exchange before alterations Andrew Moffett House (staircase, library, drawing room, dining room, bedroom) Nathaniel Heyward House (house, bow of house and kitchen building) Judge King House (house, 1st and 2nd floor plans, interior window, doorway Bishop Robert Smith House steps(a/k/a St. Philip's Parsonage) Col. William Rhett House (house, room with doorways, drawing room mantel Miles Brewton House (house, steps, lower hall, upper hall, plan of house and grounds, carriage house, arch looking toward kitchen courtyard, servants' house, 1st and 2nd floor floor plans, 1st floor room, drawing room, measured drawing of 1st floor mantel, measured drawing of 1st floor door) Horry House & Pringle (Miles Brewton) House (plan of house and grounds, corner Meeting & Tradd) Pineapple Gates House / Simmons-Edwards House (stairs, gate, mantel) Sass Gate John Edwards House / George W. Williams House (house, measured drawing of mantel, mantel) Daniel E. Huger House (house, drawing room) Nathaniel Russell House (house, staircase, 1st-3rd floor oval room mantels) Branford-Horry House (house, 2nd floor plan, lower floor, measured drawings of entrance hall and drawing room, mantel) Joseph Manigault House (house, plan of house and grounds, mantel, doorway) William Washington House (house, gate) Robert Pringle House (piazza, entrance, 1st floor mantel) Col. John Stuart House (entrance, drawing room dooor, drawing room mantel, measured drawing of door and mantel, 1st and 2nd floor floor plans) Parker House (mantel) Humphrey Sommers House, measured drawing of mantel 386 p., ill., 23 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2012.010.

Source or Donor

Estate of Emily Ravenel Farrow

Acquisition Method

Bequest

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

United States Local History, South Carolina, Charleston, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Architecture, Domestic--South Carolina--Charleston, Charleston (S.C.)--Dwellings, Charleston (S.C.)--Description and travel, Lost architecture

Book Details

Author

Smith, D. E. Huger (Daniel Elliott Huger), Smith, Alice R. Huger (Alice Ravenel Huger)

Publisher

J.B. Lippincott Co.

Place Published

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Date Published

1917

Call No.

F279 .C4 S596 1917

Notes

Copy No.: 2

Location

Shelf

Books

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Notes

Spine has separated from book.

General Notes

Note

Notes: Full title (from t.p.): The dwelling houses of Charleston, South Carolina, by Alice R. Huger Smith and D. E. Huger Smith: with 128 illustrations from drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith, photographs, and architectural drawings by Albert Simons. Includes index.

Created By

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Create Date

June 29, 2012

Updated By

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Update Date

April 5, 2023