City Directories and History: VENDUE RANGE
Developed after 1790
One of the centers of trade and commercial activity in the antebellum period, Vendue Range has experienced great changes in the postwar and modern eras. Although 15-17 Vendue Range, built by the Scottish merchant Thomas Napier about 1830, stands as a monument to antebellum architecture, mid-nineteenth – century photographs depict numerous other landmarks, including an extensive Greek arcade, which have been lost. 18 Vendue Range is an early-nineteenth-cen- tury survivor of this row. Damage during the Civil War, extensive reconstruction in the late-nineteenth century at 23-25 Vendue Range, and the earthquake of 1886 have all taken their toll on this stage of antebellum architecture. The former brick warehouse at 22-24 Vendue Range, owned in the late-nineteenth century by the grocer Carsten Wulbern, has retained its original arched fenestration. An earlier structure to the southeast was demolished in 1989 following hurricane damage to make way for a planned waterfront hotel, which has not been built.
The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
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