34 North Market Street
City Directories and History: CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER
Constructed circa 1916; rehabilitated late-1960s – 80s
This rough brick Gothic church was built in 1916 as a chapel for mariners and sailors, replacing Mariner’s Church at 50 Church
Street, which was damaged in the earthquake. This church adjoined the seamen’s home located to the west on North Market Street. The Pinckney family held this site longer than most of its other area property, giving these parcels to the Charleston Port Society. Miss Harriott Pinckney donated the property because she “almost daily watched the sailors loitering around the waterfront apparently with no home and no place to go.” The chapel was constructed in the traditional Gothic manner but, like its predecessor on Church Street, contains a pulpit made from the prow of a small boat and other nautical features. The seamen’s home is a two-story building with matching brick detailing and Gothic trim, including a lancet-arched loggia on the southeast corner of the building. These structures ceased their charitable functions in the 1960s and have been converted as restaurants.
The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston 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 or The Charleston City Guide of 1872
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