9 Broad Street

Both 9 and 11 Broad Street were designed in 1856 by Edward Brickell (E.B.) White, Charleston’s most prolific antebellum architect. A West Point graduate, White was a surveyor, engineer, military man and architect. Among his surviving public buildings are Market Hall, the College of Charleston gate house and the colossal portico and wings on Randolph Hall destroyed by the 1886 earthquake and the South Carolina Electric and Gas building on Meeting Street. He designed the steeple on St. Philip’s Church, the Huguenot Church, Grace Church, Centenary Methodist Church and St. Johannes Lutheran Church.

Number 9 Broad Street is a narrow, one-bay building designed for brokers W. Pinkney Shingler and T. J. Shingler, brothers from the Orangeburg District of South Carolina. The brownstone façade was executed by New York stonecutter W. G. Chave. The inscription reads “Exchange Office.”

It continued to make history when it became the real estate office of Charleston’s mother of preservation (and first woman in Charleston’s history to have her own real estate office), Susan Pringle Frost.