Charlotte St District


  • Type: Historic District
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

Charlotte Street is a notable street in Charleston, South Carolina. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1828/00/00 Late Adamesque style house at 29 Charlotte St is begun by Richard Cunningham sometime after 1815 and completed c 1828 by John Gordon
1831/00/00 40 Charlotte St built for Jonah M Venning, owner of a lumber yard on Venning's Wharf (Cooper River between Calhoun and Laurens St). He bought the lot in 1827 and moved here c 1831 from St Philip St.
1834/00/00 16 Charlotte St is built between 1834 and 1840 for Robert Martin, a successful merchant in the "wagon-yard" trade
1834/00/00 44 Charlotte St built by William Henry Houston, a carpenter and contractor
1848/00/00 Joseph Daniel Aiken Home 20 Charlotte St (kitchen building and stable) is built by Robert Martin (1790-1852), a Charleston factor who lived next door at 16 Charlotte St, as a wedding gift for his daughter, Ellen Daniel Martin (1829-1902) and Joseph Daniel Aiken.
1849/00/00 43 Charlotte St, two and one-half story brick house, built for Williard A Hussey
1855/04/01 William Martin Aiken Born William Martin Aiken is born at home, 20 Charlotte St
1865/00/00 Ferdinand von Zeppelin Work As military attache to the Union Army during the occupation of Charleston, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, uses Charleston Gas (East End of Charlotte St) to inflate observation balloons and launch them from a lot at George St and St Philip St.

Places

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White-Sickles House

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Particulars for Charlotte St District:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Historic District
Historic Use Single dwelling




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