Denmark Vesey House

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Denmark Vesey House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property

56 Bull Street
32°46′55.7″N 79°56′28″W / 32.782139°N 79.94111°W / 32.782139; -79.94111
Built	1800-1822
Part of	Charleston Historic District (ID66000964)
NRHP reference No.	76001698
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1976^[1]
Designated NHL	May 11, 1976^[2]
Designated NHLDCP	October 9, 1960

Commonly known as the Denmark Vesey House, the house located at 56 Bull Street in Charleston, South Carolina was for a long time thought to be the house once inhabited by black abolitionist Denmark Vesey. Vesey's home, listed as 20 Bull Street under the city's former numbering system, is now evidently gone. A nearby home, most likely built in the 1820 and currently numbered 56 Bull Street, was thought in the 1970s to have been the home of Denmark Vesey, and it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 by the Department of Interior.^[2]^[3]^[4] Vesey was hanged on July 2, 1822 and his body was never found.^[5] Despite these findings, the house has continued to be listed as a National Historic Landmark^[6] and is on the National Register of Historic Places.^[7]

The house described as the Vesey house is a single story wood-frame structure, oriented sideways to the street. The narrow street facade has two windows, while the longer west side has a porch extending across the front portion, with a wider addition to the back. Two doors enter the house from the porch. The interior of the front portion has three rooms, one beside the other, and the rear addition has four more.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Denmark Vesey House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Lynne Gomez Graves (October 30, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Denmark Vesey House" (pdf). National Park Service. and Accompanying three photos, exterior, from 1975 (32 KB)
^ Douglas R. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, 2004, Revised and Updated ed., American Profiles, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, footnote 18, p. 83 ISBN 0-7425-4222-X
^ Egerton (2004), He Shall Go Out Free, footnote 18, p. 83
^ Denmark Vesey's House & Marker
^ National Register of Historical Places - SOUTH CAROLINA (SC), Charleston County