House and Garden 
DOORWAY OF EDMONDSON HOUSE 
Angloesque gateways of old Charleston. 
Take the Edmondson gateway, of which 
we give two illustrations,—Lagare Street, on 
which it is located, being too 
narrow to afford a detailed 
view of the entire design on 
one plate. This gateway, easily 
one of the most notable in 
America, is English in design. 
It was built about 1789, when 
fashionable life was at its 
height in Charleston and un¬ 
rivalled elsewhere in America 
(according to Josiah Quincy). 
Edmondson was a man of 
taste with the means to gratify 
it. On the wrought iron grille 
work flanking either side of 
the door are his initials, C. E. 
The doorway shown in the 
illustration, by the way, does 
not enter the house proper, 
but being opened the visitor is 
confronted by a flight of four 
steps which rise to the first 
French models as might be expected in a 
country populated by Gallic emigration, and 
contrasting in much with the decidedly 
st. Michael’s gate 
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