City Directories and History: BENJAMIN MCCABE TENEMENTS; Constructed circa 1896
“In 1890 Benjamin McCabe, a leading investor and captain in a local militia company, the Irish Volunteers, constructed these five dwellings in the Queen Anne style with pedimented gable roofs. Four of the houses have double-tiered front piazzas. The houses generally retain the stylized woodwork of their front porches, including lattice or turned balusters and chamfered columns and windows with triangular louvered heads. McCabe lived at 59 Chapel Street, which retains its original one-story front piazza. McCabe’s investment company constructed three houses in similar style around the corner at 24, 26, and 28 Elizabeth Street in 1896, replacing an early-nineteenth-century tenement that had belonged to his parents.”
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
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