Presqui'ile

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Presqui'ile
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Presqui'ile (South Carolina)
Presqui'ile
Location: 2 Amherst St., Charleston, South Carolina
Coordinates: 32°47′43.48″N 79°55′59.9″W / 32.7954111, -79.933306Coordinates: 32°47′43.48″N 79°55′59.9″W / 32.7954111, -79.933306
Built/Founded: 1802
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style(s): Early Republic, Other
Added to NRHP: December 08, 1978
NRHP Reference#: 78002503[1]
Governing body: Private

Presqu'ile, or Presqui'ile, (pronounced Preesk-eel), the French term for "peninsula," was an appropriate name for the house built at 2 Amherst St., Charleston, South Carolina between 1802 and 1808 because, at the time, the house stood on a finger of high ground that projected into the marshes of the Cooper River. The builder, Jacob Belser, was a planter, attorney, and state senator (1812-15).[2]

It has been speculated that the house was designed by Gabriel Manigault. The interior has fine Adamesque decorations of carved wood and a sprial staircase. There is a single room on each of the first floors and two on the third, in the main, older prtion of the house. The stair is set in a semicircular bay on the rear.[2]

A square, three-story rear wing in the Greek Revival style was added by Henry Grimke, a planter who acquired the house in 1840.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ a b c Robert P. Stockton, Information for Guides of Historic Charleston, South Carolina 72 (1985).
  3. ^ Presqu'ile, Charleston County (2 Amherst St., Charleston). National Register Properties in South Carolina listing. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.

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