City Directories and History: AMES WHITE BUILDING
Constructed circa 1819
“James White, a merchant, mortgaged a new building on this site in 1819. Retaining many of its late-Federal features including corner quoining, window heads, and belt course, the house has a pilastered pediment that once included a tripartite window, since reduced to the current small opening. White never lived here, but Henry Loomis, a hardware merchant, had his business and residence here by 1819. Like many of the early-nineteenth-century buildings surviving in this part of King Street, the upstairs follows the single house plan and retains its original woodwork. The property formerly included a bakery and extensive outbuildings at the rear; part of the stuccoed kitchen dependency survives.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
Other resources: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61, Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917, Charleston 1861 Census Schedule, 1844 Map of Charleston, and a 1872 Bird’s Eye View of Charleston, S.C. The Hist. Charleston Foundation may also have additional data at: Past Perfect
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