City Directories and History: CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN NATIONAL BANK – Constructed circa 1840; renovated circa 1958
Functioning in the nineteenth century as the office of the veterinary surgeon Dr. Benjamin McInnes and in the twentieth century as the offices of one of Charleston’s pioneer urologists and heart surgeons, the younger Dr. Benjamin Mclnnes, this property remained in the hands of the Mclnnes family, who owned and operated the blacksmith’s shop at 24 Chalmers Street for nearly one hundred years. A two-story stuccoed brick structure with Italianate arches on the ground story and Craftsman period details on the second, the building was completely refashioned in the late-1950s to appear as a Colonial Revival style Charleston single house in its use as a branch bank; it adjoined a large bank parking lot that was constructed at that time surrounded by a splendid Charleston style brick wall.
The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
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