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Metadata
Object Type |
Property File |
Title |
122 Tradd Street (William C. Bee House) |
Scope & Content |
Constructed ca. 1850. William C. Bee, owner of the leading blockade running business in Charleston during the Civil War, served as a commissioner from South Carolina negotiating a withdrawal of Federal troops and the end of Reconstruction. Bee built this 3½ story brick single house as his family's residence in the second quarter of the 19th century. The two-bay, three-story brick facade consists of Flemish bond brickwork, brick jack arches above each window, and a gabled parapet with a tripartite window. The two-story Tuscan-columned piazza features an Italianate style architrave screen with a console bracketed hood. Bee helped establish the phosphate industry in the Charleston area after the war. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) Three files contain documentation of the easement on the property including side letter" and Confirmation of Understanding; Part I certification (National Register); appraisal; annual inspection reports, requests for alterations, and correspondence related to the management of the property, including conceptual approval letter (1983); FOHG house histories (three 1980s?) and garden history (2003); captioned newspaper photograph of house (1972); photocopy of plats (1966, 1988); HABS photographs of house and gate). See Easement Documentation Photo Files for easement donation photographs (Exh. B to Deed of Conservation Easement) and Covenant/Easement Inspection Photo Files for inspection photography. |
Subjects |
Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston |
Search Terms |
Tradd Street Easement Property Eighteenth-Century Expansion Loutrel Briggs garden |
Physical Description |
1 Gift Folder 1 Management Folder 1 History/Miscellaneous Folder |
Object ID # |
TRADD.122.1 |