City Directories and History: WILLIAM C. BEE HOUSE
Constructed circa 1850
“William C. Bee, owner of the leading blockade running business in Charleston during the War Between the States, served as a commissioner from South Carolina negotiating a withdrawal of
Federal troops and the end of Reconstruction. Bee built this three-and-a- half-story brick single house as his family’s residence in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The two-bay, three-story brick facade consists of Flemish bond brickwork, brick jack arches above each window, and a gabled parapet with a tripartite window. The two-story, Tuscan-columned piazza features an Italianate style architrave screen with a console bracketed hood. Bee also helped establish the phosphate industry in the Charleston area after the war.”
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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