36 Meeting Street

36 Meeting Street. Brunet-Hall House. This early Charleston single house was built by Huguenot carpenter Esaie Brunet as his residence on the banks of Vanderhorst Creek (now Water Street)., In 1764 it became the family home of Revolutionary War naval hero Captain William Hall, commander of the brigantine Notre Dame, who captured sixty enemy vessels while protecting the coast. When Charleston fell to the British in 1780, he was captured and sent by prison ship to St. Augustine, FL with other prominent patriots including South Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, and Arthur Middleton., Col. Lewis Morris purchased the house in 1797. During the Revolutionary War he served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Nathanael Greene who liberated “Charles Town” from the British in 1782. His father was Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York., This Georgian house still retains the original kitchen fireplace with a rare surviving beehive oven. In the parlor is a mantle attributed to master cabinetmaker Thomas Elfe. Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons made the wrought iron gates in the 1980s using salvaged 19th century ironwork.