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164 Wentworth St., Charleston, South Carolina

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DeTreville-Lafitte House 164 Wentworth St., Charleston, South Carolina Constructed ca. 1853. Buried within the north portion of this 3½-story stuccoed brick structure with hip roof and 2-story Doric-order piazzas is the complete structure of of an early-19th century Federal or Adam style house complete with mantles and wainstcotting. When Richard DeTreville purchased the site in 1853, the deed indicated that the property contained a "mansion." DeTreville did not demolish the structure. Instead, his large Greek Revival house was incorporated into the earlier building. Ten years after purchasing the property, DeTreville sold the dwelling to John B.L. Lafitte, a commission merchant from New York City. Not long afterward, Lafitte purchased a mortgage by a firm that included George Alfred Trenholm, Christopher Memminger's successor as secretary of the treasury for the Confederacy. During the Civil War, Trenholm outfitted a flotilla of 12 ships to run the blockade into Confederate seaports. They made more than 60 successful trips into Wilmington, Charleston, and other Confederate seaports, exchanging cotton for war materials. Because of Lafitte's mortgage with Trenholm's firm, 164 Wentworth became part of the suit filed by the U.S. government following the war to seek payment for large wartime profits. The result was a referee's sale in 1873 at which Savage Deas Trenholm purchased the house for $27,000. The building was subsequently purchased by the Wulburn family of local German merchants that populated much of the Harleston Village neighborhood. They maintained the large building as their residence until the early 1930s when the Depression devastated their finances and the property was auctioned off for back taxes. Subsequently the Dumas family obtained the property and converted it into apartments. They offered it for sale in 1970 to Frank Gay, a professor at the Baptist College in Ladson, SC. He gave them $10,000 down and the Dumas took back a $40,000 mortgage for one year telling Mr. Gay that if they were not paid on time they would foreclose and he would lose his down payment. A year later Mr. Gay obtained the necessary financing and kept the property until the mid-1980s when he decided to divide the building into condominiums and hired Bergreen Renovaters to do the work. During this process some of the funds were wasted and once again the property was taken from the owner by the bank doing the financing of the work. The bank had the work completed and then sold it to the Coker family of Charleston who have maintained it as upscale apartments.


References[edit]

Historic Charleston Foundation; http://charleston.pastperfectonline.com/archive/059C421B-6BB8-498E-B08B-164101841139

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