Historical Marker Transcription
The Samuel Wainwright House
ca. 1760
This advertisement appeared in the S.C. Gazette on 6th Jan., 1784, following Mr. Wainwright's death
"On WEDNESDAY the 28th of JANUARY inft. WILL BE SOLD by Order of the Hon. Cornelius Dupont, Efq. that capital and well known HOUSE, No. 77, the Corner of Tradd and King Streets. -- The Houfe
contains eight rooms, with a large piazza and pantry; the back buildings are, a two-ftory-kitchen-and-wafh-houfe, a ftable fufficient for twelve horfes, coach-houfe, chair houfe, and wood-houfe, all of brick; fmoke-houfe, poultry and pigeon-houfe.
The Lot containf 63 1/2 Feet front on Tradd-ftreet, and 101 1/2 on King-ftreet. The houfe if built of the beft materialf, and there if no want of witneffef in thif City to prove the faithful manner in which the fame waf put together, being formerly the property of Mr. Samuel Wainwright, who built it for hif own ufe. VILLEPONTOUX and Co."
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