Lyle - I don't know if the two door buildings in SC are Huguenot or not. Tina, if you have access to John Vlach's book Back of the Big House there are several examples shown there, including a couple from SC.
Carl Steen
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Subject: Re: New here, couple of questions
On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Barbara Hickman wrote:
> Is that anything like a Cumberland Plan structure (window-door-wall-door-window)?
BJH
If the doors are set to almost adjacent to the central dividing wall, yes.
Lyle Browning, RPA
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>>>> On 18 September, 2010 at 4:14 PM, in message <[log in to unmask]>,
"Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There were three main clumps of Hugenots that ended up in New Paltz, NY,
Midlothian, VA, and Charleston, SC. The VA Huguenots have a house with two front
doors placed quite near the central dividing wall. The dividing wall typically
has a door at the back end of the house. You step straight into a room on both
sides, rather than a hall.
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> But, there has been some controversy about the attribution from those on the
Dark Side (Architectural History) of the divide. Having said that, local legend
has that type of house firmly in the Huguenot tradition although it's not a
survival from the 1700-1720 time period when they're arriving, but most seem to
be first half 19th century. Does that type of house exist in the Huguenot
inventory in SC?
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> Lyle Browning, RPA
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> On Sep 18, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Tina Devereaux wrote:
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>> Thank you for your response, Carl. I have not contacted Chris as of yet. I
did, however contact Jay Coke, formerly of the Summerville Museum, who
unfortunately had few answers for me. Summerville is abounding with odd homes
and properties though apparently little records were kept on servant homes.
>>
>> Although there were surely many more homes at one time in Summerville such as
mine, with two front doors, there are now only four. I feel blessed to have
discovered and uncovered such a rarity. It is truly a shame that the structures
of centuries past are being destroyed.
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