City Directories and History: JAMES REDDING TENEMENTS – Constructed circa 1889; rehabilitated 1979-80
“Although Alexander Wilson owned this and the properties to the north in this block from the 1870s until the 1880s, only a few small one-story houses occupied the site. In 1884 James Redding bought these two properties from Wilson’s heir, as well as acquiring the sites oi 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 Warren Street. Numbers 140 and 142 Coming Street mirror the general single house plan for Wilson’s tenements, including double-tiered piazzas screened by Italianate style doorways and simple wood sheathing, six-over-six sash windows, and double, Gothic hooded chimneys. Most of the Warren Street dwellings, constructed between 1890 and 1898, follow the same plan, although Redding or a subsequent owner added a roof overhang with brackets and square-cut decoration in the Queen Anne manner to 50 Warren Street. Another investor, J. H. Mindermann, built an L-shaped modified single house at 138 Coming Street.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston – Author, for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
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
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