350 Meeting Street, a

350 Meeting Street, a

c. 1956-1957

11/22/2016 (date digital)

Joseph Manigault House

Back of photograph: "(c) Henry P. Staats / Joseph Manigault House / 350 Meeting St." A Neoclassical suburban villa, the house was commissioned in 1803 by wealthy planter, Joseph Manigault. The building is three stories on a high basement with a curvilinear bay on the north side, which displays the entry door and Palladian window, as well as another curvilinear bay on the east side, a semicircular double-tiered piazza on the west, and a rectangular piazza on the south facing the garden. Constructed of distinct, locally made brick, and trimmed in a variety of sandstone, the house is covered by a slate, hipped roof. Suffering from neglect and used as a tenement, the house was threatened with demolition, before the Charleston Museum purchased the house in 1933

it has preserved and interpreted it ever since. Poston, J. H. (1997). The Buildings of Charleston. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

visible image 12 x 12 cm

Donated to CLS by Henry P. Staats.

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Young, Sarah (digital assistant)

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