Rebecca Screven House
The Rebecca Screven House in Charleston, South Carolina is Charleston single house built sometime before 1828 at 35 Legare Street.
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Rebecca Screven built the house on property she inherited from her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Williams. In 1879, the house was bought by Louisa J. McCord.[1] Louisa McCord was one of the most prominent women writers in antebellum South Carolina.[2]
In April 2014, the Historic Charleston Foundation bought the house through its revolving fund, a pool of money the foundation uses to acquire historic properties before reselling them to preservation-minded buyers subject to preservation easements. The foundation paid $1.75 million for the house, performed some work on the building, and listed it for resale in May 2014 through a competitive bid process. Both the interior and exterior of the house will be protected by easements, as will a garden designed by Loutrel Briggs.[3]
References
- "35 Legare St". Legare Street. Charleston County Library. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- Fraser, Jessie Melville (October 1920). "Louisa C. McCord". Bulletin of the University of South Carolina (91): 3.
- Behre, Robert (May 3, 2014). "Two tools working to preserve 35 Legare St". Post & Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
Bibliography
- Fought, Leigh (2003). Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1470-3.