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Property File |
Title |
47 East Bay Street (Anne Boone House) |
Scope & Content |
Constructed after 1740; renovated 1840; restored 20th century. Mrs. Boone's dwelling may have been built within the massive brick shell of an early-18th century house remaining on the site after the fire of 1740. The property offers a link with one of the lesser-known facets of early Charleston history. Anne Boone was the daughter of the landgrave Daniel Axtell, son of a Puritan leader who helped execute King Charles I and one of the refugees welcomed to Carolina by the Lords Proprietors. Her husband Joseph, also a Puritan or Dissenter, figured prominently in many of the political struggles with the rising Anglican leadership in the late-17th and early-18th centuries. The north wall of the house with its original stucco and arched staircase windows survives almost intact from original construction. The other facades, however, have some alterations, including the replacement of the earlier porch with the present Tuscan piazza in 1840, the addition of an old balcony from another house in the early-20th century, and the rebuilding of the gable end in its 19th century closed pediment profile after its collapse in Hurricane Hugo in 1989. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains FOHG house histories (undated, 2020); newspaper article (DYKYC); house history from Information for Guides of Historic Charleston. |
Subjects |
Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston |
Search Terms |
East Bay Street Loutrel Briggs garden |
Physical Description |
1 File Folder |
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Object ID # |
EBAY.047.1 |