It can be definitely dated because its builder, Judge Robert Pringle, had his initials and 1774 inscribed in a stone used in the construction.
Unlike most Charleston single houses, 70 Tradd Street has two rooms on each of its first two floors that are not of the same size.
[1] The piazzas and street front door reflect early 19th-century style.
The younger Pringle was appointed to serve as the United States attorney for South Carolina by George Washington after the Revolutionary War in 1789.
[3] He declined President Thomas Jefferson's invitation to serve as the United States Attorney General in 1805.