7 and 9 Stoll's Alley, a

7 and 9 Stoll's Alley, a

c. 1956-1957

11/29/2016 (date digital)

Peter Trezevan'ts House, No. 9? Back of photpgraph: "7 & 9 Stoll's Alley" Between 1700 and 1748, a small passageway off East Bay was established to connect with Church Street. Many informal documents state that small structures were constructed along the passageway, where harbor pilots lived. The area was called Pilot’s Alley. After the death of Landgrave Thomas Smith II, his widow Mary Smith sold a portion of Lot 102 to James Fowler in 1740, including the properties that are now numbers 9 and 11 Stoll’s Alley. Mary Smith also sold land that was along the south side of the Alley behind the property facing East Bay, to Justinus Stoll and his wife Mary Taylor Stoll. Stoll (1704-1778), for whom the street was renamed, was a blacksmith whose shop was on East Bay next to Granville’s Bastion of the old walled city, a short walk away. His portion of land included that of the present numbers 3, 5, and 7 Stoll’s Alley. He is thought to have built his home at No. 7 Stoll's Alley, c. 1745, which can be glimpsed at the far left of this photograph. Alida Canfield rescued all of the homes in Stoll’s Alley from the slum-like conditions that had existed since after the Civil War into the twentieth century. Beginning in 1919 and ending in 1938, she bought and restored numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Number 9 Stoll’s Alley is pre-revolutionary brick with a gambrel roofline, pictured here without the modern entryway. Stoney, S. G. (1976). This is Charleston. Charleston: The Carolina Art Association. Stockton, R. P. 7 Stoll’s Alley: A Documentary History. Charleston, South Carolina, 2000. Retrieved from: http://www.trezevantfamilyproject.com/5-stolls-alley-peter-trezevant-house/

visible image 17 x 12 cm

Donated to CLS by Henry P. Staats.

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