The largest of the mansions on the battery is the Calhoun Mansion. 3 full floors, plus full attic and English basement. It is owned currently by an international lawyer who is a collector of all kinds of antiques. He actually lives in the house with his dogs and cat. The house was used as a Navy barracks in WW1 which brought with it many, many repairs that needed to be made. They painted the inside with waterprood battleship grey pain when the portable latrines and showers were leaking.
This house across the street was built by him for his son when he married. Not to show favoritism at all he also had built for his daughter one of my all time favorites on the Battery, 2 Meeting Street. Not the beautiful piazza on both levels of the house.
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