{"id":5994,"date":"2015-01-13T20:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/charleston\/?post_type=buildings&p=5994"},"modified":"2023-02-27T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:37:22","slug":"59-meeting-street-2","status":"publish","type":"buildings","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/charleston\/buildings\/59-meeting-street-2\/","title":{"rendered":"59 Meeting Street the Branford – Horry House \/ Horry’s Receipt Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Directories and History:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0BRANFORD-HORRY HOUSE
\nConstructed 1750; portico added 1830; and 20th century restorations<\/p>\n

“The merchant Benjamin Savage acquired the lot at the corner of Tradd and Meeting\u00a0Streets from John Allen and his wife in 1747. Savage in 1750 then bequeathed to \u201cElizabeth Savage, the daughter of my Brother Thomas Savage (now living with me) my houses and Ground in Charleston . . . with all and singular buildings and<\/p>\n

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appurtenances it being the ground and houses in Tradd Street.\u201d Elizabeth subsequently married William Branford, a wealthy planter, whose holdings included Old Towne Plantation, the original site of Charles Town. Elizabeth\u2019s daughter, Ann, and then her grandson Elias Horry, second president of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, inherited the house after her death in 1801. It was Horry who apparently added the Greek piazzas that now cover the sidewalk on the Meeting Street side of the property.<\/p>\n

The house has a double-pile plan, with one large room and one smaller room on the second-floor front. On the first floor both front-room doorways were widened during the Horry occupancy to create a double-parlor plan. The stable associated with the house is now 61 Meeting Street. A kitchen building west of the stable was demolished in the early-twentieth century.”<\/p>\n

Information from:\u00a0The Buildings of Charleston<\/em> – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997<\/p>\n

Other sources: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston<\/a><\/span>, SC in 1860-61,\u00a0Dwelling Houses of Charleston<\/a><\/span> by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917, Charleston 1861 Census Schedule<\/a>, <\/span>and a\u00a01872 Bird’s Eye View of Charleston, S.C<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0The Hist. Charleston Foundation may also have additional data at: Past Perfect<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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R&R HISTORY LINK: SCHS Mag. article; “Extracts from Harriott Horry’s Receipt Book, Pt. I<\/p><\/div>\n

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R&R HISTORY LINK: SCHS Mag. article; “Extracts from Harriott Horry’s Receipt Book” Pt. II<\/p><\/div>\n

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City Directories and History:\u00a0BRANFORD-HORRY HOUSE Constructed 1750; portico added 1830; and 20th century restorations “The merchant Benjamin Savage acquired the lot at the corner of Tradd and Meeting\u00a0Streets from John Allen and his wife in 1747. Savage in 1750 then bequeathed to \u201cElizabeth Savage, the daughter of my Brother Thomas Savage (now living with me)… <\/p>\n

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