Sanders House, Kitchen Building, 82 Pitt Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Significance: Constructed ca. 1840, this 2 1/2 story brick house is a good example of the suburban development that blossomed as Charleston's expanding antebellum population pushed development north up the peninsula. The builders of this house appear to have been 2 entrepreneurs, Septimus Sanders, a barber whose business was located at 43 Broad Street, and Joseph A. Sanders, a bricklayer. The Sanders' acquired the property in 1848 and built a residence here, which was owned briefly by William Bell, a planter and then by Mrs. Sarah O'Hear...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N429
Survey number: HABS SC-782-A