106 Tradd Street, a

106 Tradd Street, a

c. 1956-1957

11/29/2016 (date digital)

Col. John Stuart's House

Back of photograph: "(c) Henry P. Staats / Col. John Stuart House / 106 Tradd St. / Chas." Col. John Stuart built this house before 1772, three and one-half stories of wood with a hipped roof and a "captain's walk." The three bay facade is faced with flush weatherboards and the front windows have pediments. Known for its fine Georgian woodwork, the drawing room woodwork had to be replicated because the original was sold after World War l to the Minneapolis Museum of Art for a period display. Col. Stuart was the Royal Commissioner of lndian Affairs for the area extending from Virginia to West Florida. A Tory, his property in South Carolina was confiscated by Patriot authorities in 1775, and the home was later sold to merchant Alexander Gillon in 1782. In the 1900s, a subsequent owner added the two story octagonal wing and the piazza (Poston, 1997, p. 285). Tradition says Gen. Francis Marion, an abstemious man, found himself locked in by an overbearing host (a Patriot officer quartered here after Col. Stuart's departure), who refused to let his guests leave until drunk (Ravenel, 1906, p. 286). The tradition says that, to escape the drinking bout, Marion leaped from a window and broke his leg, and this made necessary a long recuperation on his plantation, and he thus avoided capture by the British on the fall of Charles Towne, in 1780. Poston, J. H. (1997). The Buildings of Charleston. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. Ravenel, S. J. (1906). Charleston, the place and the people. New York: Macmillan.

visible image 12 x 12 cm

Donated to CLS by Henry P. Staats.

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