City Directories and History: CHISOLM’S MILL SUPERINTENDENT’S HOUSE
Constructed circa 1840; renovated early-twentieth century
A Civil War view of a damaged Confederate semisubmersible gunboat, sitting adjacent to the Tradd Street seawall, shows the Chisolm’s Mill superintendent’s house in nearly its original condition. This dwelling, built to house the keeper of the mill, retains its original closed-pediment gable end, double chimneys on the east elevation, and nine-over-nine sash windows. Early-twentieth-century alterations include the addition of a second-story piazza, subsequently partially enclosed; an L-shaped addition; and replacement of the wood shingle roof with tin roof. The author and playwright DuBose Heyward lived here briefly as a child in the 1880s, and in the twentieth century the noted South Carolina historian Dr. George C. Rogers Jr. grew up in the house, then owned by his father, Charleston school superintendent George C. Rogers Sr.
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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