Knauth Property
Historic Property
Alternate Name:
[unknown]
Street Address:
2851 Broome Ln.;(Beaufort County)
Site Number:
025-714
Control Number:
R/13/025-714
Tax Number:
R100 006 000 039B 0000
Date Surveyed:
June 1 1997
Category:
Building
Construction Date:
circa 1940
Historic Use:
Residential/Domestic
Current Use:
Residential/Domestic
Signficant Architectural Features:
Access to the site was not permitted; reported to contain multi-building retreat complexUnusual complex of buildings consisting of detached structures built to serve as a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, an office, a captain's quarters, etc.; access to site was not permitted, information based on verbal sources
Historical Information:
Existing buildings built for Oswald Knauth, treasurer for Macy's department store chain, between 1937 and 1945; Knauth was a professor of economics at Columbia University and was prominent during the Eisenhower administration; notable visitors to the pro
Source of Historical Information:
Interview, Beecher Hoogenboom, Beaufort, SC, 8/6/97; Dr. Herbert Keyserling, 6/1/97
Quadrangle Name:
Beaufort