James Sparrow House is an excellent example of a Charleston single house in the late Federal style . It is named for a Charleston butcher who acquired the property at 65 Cannon St. in 1797 . Several other butchers owned and lived in the house by 1825 when Christian David Happoldt bought the house . It remained in his family until 1907 . It is a two and one-half story stuccoed brick house , raised on a basement of the same material . The masonry has an embellished by a dog-tooth cornice , with full return , repeated in the rake of the gable end . Quoins of stuccoed brick articulate the corners and a stringcourse of the same material delineates the floor levels . Two interior chimneys , with Gothic arched hoods , on the east side of the house were reconstructed after the earthquake of 1886 . The house was listed in the National Register January 30 , 1998
the earthquake of 1886
1886 Charleston earthquake
James Sparrow House