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Robert Pringle House

Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
70 Tradd St
70 Tradd St

The Robert Pringle House is a historic house in Charleston, South Carolina. It can be definitely dated because its builder, Judge Robert Pringle, had his initials and 1774 inscribed in a stone used in the construction. The 3+1⁄2-story house is three bays wide and six bays deep. Unlike most Charleston single houses, 70 Tradd Street has two rooms on each of its first two floors that are not of the same size. Rather, the front room is three bays deep and is separated by a stair hall from a two-bay room to the rear. In August 1789, a deed was prepared which included a description of the house as being two floors--either a mistake or perhaps an indication that the third floor was a later enlargement. The piazzas and street front door reflect early 19th-century style. Despite those alterations to the house, the interior woodwork is still a high-style Georgian style. Indeed, the house has been described as one of the "better Georgian Colonial buildings still standing in Charleston."Following the death of Robert Pringle in 1776, the house was inherited by his son, John Julius Pringle. The younger Pringle was appointed to serve as the United States attorney for South Carolina by George Washington after the Revolutionary War in 1789. From 1792 to 1808, he served as the Attorney General for South Carolina. He declined President Thomas Jefferson's invitation to serve as the United States Attorney General in 1805.The house remained in the Pringle family until 1886. The current owner's family has owned the house since 1909. A series of the dependencies behind the house were restored and received a Carolopolis Award for excellence in restoration from the Charleston Preservation Society in 2010.

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Robert Pringle House
Meeting Street, Charleston

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29415 Charleston
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William Harvey House (Charleston, South Carolina)
William Harvey House (Charleston, South Carolina)

The William Harvey House in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of three tenement houses near the southeast corner of Meeting and Tradd Streets that were described in the local newspaper as "newly built" on April 19, 1770. After nearly forty years of ownership by the Tradd family (for whom the adjacent street was named), the corner lot was sold to Jacob Motte in 1731. Motte served as the provincial treasurer for many years; in 1752 he was found to have received 90,000 pounds from the treasury in his official capacity, but was unable to repay the public funds. The unimproved lot was assigned to a committee of the government to hold until the debt was repaid. Its chain of title is incomplete until 1770 when the property belonged to William Harvey. His lot at the corner of Meeting St. and Tradd St. (which had not yet been subdivided from its original size and included houses facing Tradd Street) was to be sold, and an advertisement in the Charleston Gazette described the lot as having "three very good new-built Brick Houses, with every convenient Out-Building."In 1799, the corner parcel was bought by Henry William de Saussure and Timothy Ford. The two lawyers temporarily rejoined the house with the neighboring parcel at 63 Tradd Street before ultimately splitting off 58 Meeting Street in 1801 into its current dimensions. De Saussure received 58 Meeting St. as part of the division. The house passed through several other owners before being bought by John H. Doscher in 1872. Doscher opened a grocery in the building and remodeled the house with Victorian details and a storefront. The grocery use lasted nearly a century. The Historic Charleston Foundation bought the house in 1979 and conveyed it in April 1982 to Thomas and Jacquelin Stevenson who restored the building to a residential purpose.The house, a Charleston single house, was bought by John Dewberry in 2003 for $1.5 million. The house's stables on the south end of the lot had been joined to the house in the early 1900s and converted into a kitchen. Dewberry reworked the hyphen between the two buildings and remodeled the kitchen.

St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston

St. Michael's Churchyard, adjacent to historic St. Michael's Episcopal Church on the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston, South Carolina is the final resting place of some famous historical figures, including two signers of the Constitution of the United States. The church was established in 1751 as the second Anglican parish in Charleston, South Carolina. Interred in St. Michael's Churchyard are: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825) Colonel in the Continental Army, member of the U.S. Constitutional Convention and signer of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Minister to France, Federalist candidate for Vice President, and later candidate for President of the United States in 1804 and 1808 John Rutledge (1739–1800) Governor of South Carolina, 1779, member of the U.S. Constitutional Convention and signer of the U.S. Constitution, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court Robert Young Hayne (1791–1839) Senator, Governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston Arthur Peronneau Hayne (c. 1789–1867) U.S. Senator from South Carolina William Dickinson Martin (1789–1833) U.S. Congressman from South Carolina Mordecai Gist (1742–1792) American Revolutionary War general Thomas M. Wagner, Civil War Lieutenant Colonel and namesake for Battery Wagner. Henrietta Johnston and her second husbandAcross the street is St. Michael's Church Cemetery. Interred here is Francis Kinloch (1755–1826) a delegate to Second Continental Congress from South Carolina. J. A. W. Iusti, Frederick Julius Ortmann, and Christopher Werner were three German born forgers of wrought iron in Charleston. Iusti's creation of the St. Michael's Cemetery Gate "Sword Gate" is one of the two most notable iron gates in Charleston, the other being the "Sword Gate" by Werner.