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Tristram Hyde House

house in United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ16892560 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tristram Hyde House is a historic two-story home in Charleston, South Carolina constructed in 1914 for Tristram Hyde, who soon after became mayor of Charleston in 1915. It was designed by local architect Albert Wheeler Todd.

Designed in a Neoclassical Revival architecture style, the residence includes two-story Ionic columned portico. The features are also described as being Federal Style architecture, including a front entry bordered by trimmed fanlight and sidelights.

References

Further reading

"Charleston County GIS". Charleston County Government. ccgisweb.charlestoncounty.org/website/Charleston/viewer.htm (accessed June 14, 2010).

Jonathan H. Poston, The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tristram Hyde House” is house in United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tristram, Hyde and House, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1915, 2010, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tristram, Hyde and House is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16892560. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1915, 2010 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tristram Hyde House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.