Nov 07, 1971
National Register of Historic Places - Gov. John Rutledge House
Statement of Significant: John Rutledge, n Signer of the Constitution and wartime Governor of South Carolina, 1779-82, lived at 116 Broad Street from 1763 to 1800. Rutledge was one of the foremost lawyers in South. Carolina. He opposed the Stamp Act and in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 he was chairman of the committee which wrote the memorial and petition to the House of Lords. He was a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses and helped write the South Carolina constitution of 1776. Rutledge served as Governor of South Carolina from 1779 until January 29, 1782. In 1784 he began his judicial career with election to the chancery court of the State and from 1784-1790 also sat in the State House of Representatives. He was elected to the Federal Convention of 1787 and became chairman of the committee of detail. He fought for wealth as part of the basis of representation, for assumption of the State debts, against restrictions on the slave trade, and for the election of the President by Congress, and of Congress by the State legislatures. He signed the completed Constitution and supported its ratification in South Carolina. In 1789 Washington appointed Rutledge senior Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and he held this office until February 1791, when he resigned to become Chief Justice of South Carolina. Rutledge died in Charleston on July 23, 1800, and was buried in St. Michael's Churchyard. The John Rutledge House is a large three-story over-elevated basement brick house with a site-covered roof, a pair of large brick chimneys set in either side Mall, and an elaborate two-story cast- and wrought-it on porch on the front. Partition walls have been inserted and false ceilings installed to adapt the house for use as law offices but no important structural changes have been made to the building. The house is not open to visitors.
National Register of Historic Places - Gov. John Rutledge House
Statement of Significant: John Rutledge, n Signer of the Constitution and wartime Governor of South Carolina, 1779-82, lived at 116 Broad Street from 1763 to 1800. Rutledge was one of the foremost lawyers in South. Carolina. He opposed the Stamp Act and in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 he was chairman of the committee which wrote the memorial and petition to the House of Lords. He was a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses and helped write the South Carolina constitution of 1776. Rutledge served as Governor of South Carolina from 1779 until January 29, 1782. In 1784 he began his judicial career with election to the chancery court of the State and from 1784-1790 also sat in the State House of Representatives. He was elected to the Federal Convention of 1787 and became chairman of the committee of detail. He fought for wealth as part of the basis of representation, for assumption of the State debts, against restrictions on the slave trade, and for the election of the President by Congress, and of Congress by the State legislatures. He signed the completed Constitution and supported its ratification in South Carolina. In 1789 Washington appointed Rutledge senior Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and he held this office until February 1791, when he resigned to become Chief Justice of South Carolina. Rutledge died in Charleston on July 23, 1800, and was buried in St. Michael's Churchyard. The John Rutledge House is a large three-story over-elevated basement brick house with a site-covered roof, a pair of large brick chimneys set in either side Mall, and an elaborate two-story cast- and wrought-it on porch on the front. Partition walls have been inserted and false ceilings installed to adapt the house for use as law offices but no important structural changes have been made to the building. The house is not open to visitors.
Nov 07, 1971
Posted Date
Jun 12, 2023
Historical Record Date
Nov 07, 1971
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
Source Website
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
Source Website
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
