1. The Charleston Courier, April 25, 1851, noted that White had received some of the terracotta in broken condition.
2. Susan McDaniel Ceccacci, “Architectural Terracotta in the United States before 1870” (master’s thesis, Boston University, 1991), chap. 2, note 22.
3. Beatrice St. Julien Ravenel, Architects of Charleston (Charleston: Carolina Art Association, 1945), p. 249.
4. Ibid.
5. The window pediment illustrated in figure 32 in the catalog has two elements that were used above the second-story windows on the sides of the Rutledge House. In addition, the brackets shown in figure 32 are identical to some of the brackets salvaged from the Mills House Hotel, shown in figure 31.
6. George M. Fiske, “Clay Building Material,” Brickbuilder (May 1892), p. 36. Fiske refers to “the pinnacle of the First Unitarian Church, Charlestown [sic], North Carolina” as made in Worcester and taken down after the “1885 [sic]” earthquake. Fiske reported that he had an “excellent” piece of that terracotta in his oYce.
7. Benjamin Silliman, ed., The World of Science, Art and Industry: Illustrated from Examples in the New-York Exhibition, 1853–54 (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), p. 21.
8. Ravenel, Architects of Charleston, p. 231.
9. Kenneth Severens, Charleston: Antebellum Architecture and Civic Destiny (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), pp. 161–62.