Tradd St. runs east to west the breadth of the Charleston peninsula. It runs parallel to Broad St. to the north and South Battery St. to the south.
123 Tradd Street
Charles Graves House - 1795
This three-story masonry single house with hipped roof and Federal style details was constructed for Charles Graves, a local factor. One of the oldest building along upper Tradd Street, the house is located on portions of Lots 226 and 227 of the "Grand Modell of Charles-Town," the earliest plan of the city. (A 1680 plan for the new settlement, the Grand Modell, laid out "the model of an exact regular town," and the future for the growing community.)
The Federal influence is evidenced by the narrow central entrance with a molded architrave and tall transom with delicate neoclassical tracery. A two-story piazza with paneled ceilings, Tuscan columns and simple balusters spans the west façade. The principal elevations feature brick stuccoed and scored to resemble stone, a brick string course between the second and third floors, quoins, and decorative brick resembling dentils. A later addition on the south façade connects the main house to the original two-story masonry kitchen building.
The interior layout of the building follows the traditional single house plan, with a three story central stair hall flanked by a single room on each side. The interior of 123 Tradd Street is notable in that most of the original Federal period details have been retained.
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126 Tradd Street
The Dr. Peter Fayssoux House 1732
This three-story stucco house with a clay tile hip roof was built by Charleston merchant William Bell following the destruction of an earlier residence by fire in 1778. The fire, the second of five great Charleston fires between 1740 and 1860, destroyed approximately 250 houses in an area bounded by Water Street, Queen Street, Church Street, and Charleston harbor. The iron bolts were installed to reinforce the north and south walls damaged in the earthquake of 1886.
Adam Ewing House 1783
This town house was constructed by Adam Ewing, a Scots merchant, for his residence and place of business. He and his partner Robert Ewing (who bore the same surname but was no relation) had their counting house in the front room of the ground floor. Adam Ewing's home occupied the remainder of the house.
The Adam Ewing House was constructed after the Great Fire of 1778 which destroyed much of this neighborhood. It is notable for its simple and elegant design substantially built of stuccoed masonary with stuccoed jack arches articulating the tops of windows and doors in the facade. The entrance on Tradd Street was the public entrance to the counting house with the private residential entrance down the walk to the side.
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Cleland-Wells House 1760
This three-story stuccoed single house was constructed circa 1760 by Charleston physician Dr. William Cleland as a residence for his son William. After William's death the property was purchased in 1778 by Scottish émigré Robert Wells, the largest bookseller and printer in the Southern colonies. Wells and his son John used the first floor and perhaps the cellar of this building to publish a Tory newspaper, the South Carolina and American General Gazette. The Wells were banished from South Carolina for their Tory sympathies under the "Act for Disposing of Certain Estates and Banishing Certain Persons." Their house was confiscated by the sheriff and sold at auction to a local gunsmith by authority of the 1782 Act of Confiscation.
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72-74 Tradd Street
Fotheringham-McNeil Tenements circa 1740
Local merchant James Matthews constructed this three-story over raised basement, double tenement building circa 1740. The house features a Flemish bond brick pattern and nine over nine light windows. The gambrel roof with a jerkin-head gable is a rare surviving example of a roof form once common in 18th century Charleston.
Charleston attorney James Grindley purchased the property in 1762. Grindley rented one half of the building and used the other half as his residence and law office. At his death in 1765 the property was deeded to his nephews, Dr. Alexander Fotheringham and Dr. Archibald McNeill, who each used half of the building as a primary residence. Their wives, Isabel Fotheringham and Mary McNeill, were granddaughters of South Carolina Chief Justice Robert Wright and the nieces of Sir James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia. It was rare in Charleston that the owners occupied tenement buildings as they were usually built for rental purposes.
In the mid-nineteenth century the building was converted to a single-family residence by piercing interior walls. The building originally had two entrances at the basement level. By the early twentieth century the main entrance at the eastern end had been raised to the first floor. In the 1960s the window and entrance at the western end were enlarged to accommodate a garage
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8-10 Tradd Street
The Lamboll Double Tenement, 1726 (Rebuilt 1781)
The masonary structure of this double residence was constructed by Charleston merchant Thomas Lamboll circa 1726. The date of construction is based on surviving land grants showing the establishment of common use alleys on either side of the property. The original frame upper story and roof were heavily damaged by fires in the mid-eighteenth century and rebuilt circa 1781. The gambrel or "Dutch gable" roof is a rare surviving example of an architectural form once common in eighteenth century Charleston. Regrettably, the gambrel roof form has largely disappeared from the city as a result of early twentieth century demolitions
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