Heyward-Washington House

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Description:

Black and white photograph of the general view of the privy at the Heyward-Washington House located at 87 Church Street.

Thomas Heyward, Jr. and wife, Elizabeth, moved into the Georgian-style double house in c.1773 and added the privy along with the brick wall that surrounds the property. The house and all outbuildings were purchased in 1929 by The Charleston Museum and restoration began with the assistance of the Preservation Society of Charleston, then known as the Society for the Preservation of Old Dwellings. The house was opened to visitors the following year as Charleston's first historic house museum.

Photographer Charles N. Bayless, funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, photographed and recorded the Carolina Lowcountry between 1970 and 1988. The South Carolina Project took place between 1977 and 1979.