Charles Augustus Magwood House, 61-63 Smith Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

2015 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place

Significance: Constructed around 1825, the Charles Augustus Magwood house is an example of the typical Charleston single house, a vernacular residential type that developed in Charleston, South Carolina at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2100

Survey number: HABS SC-441

Building/structure dates: after. 1820- before. 1825 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: after 1905 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: after 2008 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: before 1902 Subsequent Work

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1935 - 1970

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