City Directories and History: “Although preservationists considered retention of the facades of the buildings at 209-235 Meeting Street to be a major victory, the extensive rear sections of all of these, primarily antebellum commercial structures, were removed to construct the hotel parking garage. These edifices include the Samuel Seyle building at 209 Meeting, built right after the fire of 1838 and sold by the fancy-goods merchant Gustav Sussdorf in 1859 to George S. Cameron.
Cameron owned the three buildings to the north at 211, 213, and 215 Meeting Street, which have unified cast-iron grand-story facades consisting of Corinthian columns, modillions, and side brackets with human mask motifs, probably added just before or after the Civil War. These structures were gutted and several refaced after a fire in 1910, and the facade of 213 Meeting Street was saved again after a 1979 fire. The five buildings to the north were owned before the Civil War by the Strohecker family and rented to a variety of brokerage houses. The Ansonborough entrepreneur Charles W. Seignious apparently owned the double-fronted edifice at 229 Meeting Street and fitted it out with Italianate style detailing.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston – Author, for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
Also see HABS photograph of this building at #227 Meeting Street.
Other sources of interest: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61 and the Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917 The HCF may also have additional data at: Past Perfect and further research can be uncovered at: Charleston 1861 Census Schedule or The Charleston City Guide of 1872
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