City Directories and History: JAMES WHITE HOUSE
Constructed circa 1852
“Elizabeth Smith White inherited a portion of this property from her father’s estate in 1840, and through partition and subsequent purchase she and her husband created two building lots at Rutledge Avenue and Wentworth Street. By 1852 White built 89 Rutledge Avenue on the corner as a two-and-a-half-story stuccoed brick Charleston single house with stone lintels and sills on the principal windows of the front elevation topped by a pilaster gable with a tripartite window. The present loggia entry and piazza are later additions. An early-twentieth-century addition to the rear dependency created a substantial additional unit accessed from Montagu Street. Shortly after constructing this residence for himself, White built a similar masonry Charleston single house with a corbeled brick gable end at 87 Rutledge Avenue.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston – Author, 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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