Presqui'ile

Presqui'ile
Location: 2 Amherst St., Charleston, South Carolina
Built: 1802
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style: Early Republic, Other
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 78002503[1]
Added to NRHP: December 8, 1978

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 spiral staircase. There is a single room on each of the first floors and two on the third, in the main, older portion 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  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. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710106/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-18. 

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