City Directories and History: DANIEL ELLIOTT HUGER HOUSE
Constructed c. 1760; some alterations c. 7795-1800, 1850, c. 1900
“The lots on which this substantial double-pile house was constructed were subdivided in 1759 from the Eveleigh House property at 39 Church Street. The purchaser was Capt. John Bull (1693-1767) of Bull’s (now Coosaw) Island. The Bull dwelling, rented by Lord William Campbell in 1775, is one of the few royal governors’ houses to survive from the colonial period. A room-by-room inventory was taken in April 1777 by Campbell’s wife’s family and filed later with the British government as a claim. On the first floor was “The Passage, Parlour The Breakfast, Parlour The Dining, Library, and Steward’s Room.” The second floor included, on the front of the house, the “Dining Room” and “Drawing Room” and, behind these, bed chambers. The third floor included bed chambers for secretary, housekeeper, servants, and the nursery, with the loft above all. Outbuildings included the kitchen with its loft, coach house, and stables. The latter building does not survive, but the rest of the property and the rooms in the main house are essentially intact. Somewhat damaged in the shelling of the city in 1864 and sacked by Union troops in 1865, the dwelling was eventually repaired. It was sold in 1795 to the Morris family and in 1818 to Francis K. Huger. His descendants occupy it to the present day.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
Other sources: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61, Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917, Charleston 1861 Census Schedule, 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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