Infirmary

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Unknown

Street Address:

900 King St., Charleston, SC (Charleston County)

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Site Number:

0075.27

Control Number:

U/19/0075.27

Tax Number:

4631601001

Date Surveyed:

April 16 2003

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

1933

Historic Use:

Health Care

Current Use:

Government

Historic Core Shape:

L

Architect or Builder:

Howe, W.B.W. (architect), Grant, Colin P. (contractor), McArrel, Robert (mason)

Number of Stories:

1.5

Construction Method:

masonry

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick

Foundation Materials:

Brick

Roof Shape:

jerkin head with cross gb

Roof Materials:

composition shingle

Porch Width:

entrance bay only

Porch Shape:

flat

National Register Determination:

listed;

Signficant Architectural Features:

Clipped gables; parapeted gabled projection with lunette upper window on north side of façade; parapet wall over porch; battered brick porch support; Syrian arch porch openings and north façade multi/1 window; Syrian arches have concrete keystones and decorated springers; porch arches have concrete voussoirs; window arch has limestone voussoirs; limestone lintels over 2/2 windows; transom and sidelights around glazed entry door; south side sun room with flat roof and parapet walls, Syrian arch openings, concrete voussoirs, keystones and springers, and brick supports; corbelled brick belt course at floor level

Historical Information:

This building is the latest addition to the Enston Home Complex. William Enston died in 1859 and left money in his estate to establish a home for the elderly based on examples in his native Canterbury. Architect W.B.W. Howe designed Picturesque rows and Romanesque buildings. The complex also had a sewage system designed by Rudolph Hering. Contractor Colin P. Grant and mason Robert McArrel oversaw construction.

Source of Historical Information:

The William Enston NRHP nomination

Quadrangle Name:

Charleston

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