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The house is set on a narrow lot on the west side of Church Street in Old Charleston.The house was built between 1701 and 1715. It was acquired in the 1730s or 1740s by Miles Brewton, who had immigrated from Barbados to Charleston in 1684, where he became a goldsmith and militia officer. [4]
The Heyward-Washington House is a historic house museum at 87 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.Built in 1772, it was home to Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and was where George Washington stayed during his 1791 visit to the city.
The George Chisolm House is at 39 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Constructed about 1810, [1] in the Federal style, [2] for George Chisolm, a factor, [3] [4] the two-and-one-half story George Chisolm House is the first house to have been built upon the landfill project that formed Charleston, South Carolina's Battery. [5]
September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
The Charles Graves House is a good example of the Charleston single house style. The Charleston single house is the city's most famous architectural style. The house is built with the longer side perpendicular to the street, and normally has a piazza on the south or west side to take advantage of the prevailing winds.
The Thomas Dale House at 73 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina. The Thomas Dale House is an early 18th century house in Charleston, South Carolina.The house appears to have been built between 1716 and 1733; Miles Brewton referred to the existing house in a deed of December 1733 when he conveyed the house to his daughter, Mrs. Mary Brewton Dale. [1]
The Dubose Heyward House is a historic house at 76 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.Now a wing of a larger house, this modest two-story structure was the home from 1919 to 1924 of author Dubose Heyward (1885–1940), author of Porgy, one of the first works to portray Southern African-Americans in a positive light.
The Capers-Motte House is a pre-Revolutionary house at 69 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The house was likely built before 1745 by Richard Capers. [1] Later, the house purchased and became the home of Colonel Jacob Motte, who served as the treasurer of the colony for 27 years until his death in 1770. [1]