{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} right | thumb | 72 Anson St. was built after the Great Fire of 1838.
The '''Benjamin Simons Neufville''' '''House''' is a Greek Rival house at 72 Anson St., Charleston, South Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Information about Ansonborough properties for sale or sold - LCDL Catalog Search |url=https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:93691 |access-date=2025-09-26 |website=lcdl.library.cofc.edu}}</ref> It is one of the largest houses in the Ansonborough neighborhood.<ref name="News & Courier">{{cite news |date=May 4, 1961 |title=72 Anson St. Will Be Sold |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4CFaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20sNAAAAIBAJ&pg=688,485832&dq=72-anson-st&hl=en |url-status=dead |accessdate=October 19, 2013 |work=Charleston News & Courier |page=D-3}}</ref> The house was built by Eliza Neufville Kohne in 1846 and remained in the family until 1904.<ref name="family">{{cite web|url=http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?catID=6023|title=Anson Street|accessdate=November 10, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110090720/http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?catID=6023|archivedate=November 10, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Poston1997">{{cite book|author=Jonathan H. Poston|title=The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHBfBOdwsCkC&pg=PA422|year=1997|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-202-8|pages=422–}}</ref> The house was purchased by the Historic Charleston Foundation in 1959, which added a brick and wrought iron fence and tore down a later addition to the home, before selling it in 1962. While much of the interior was original, a fire in the 1950s resulted in much of the first floor of the home requiring extensive repairs.<ref name="NC">{{cite news |date=November 16, 1970 |title=Some Houses Undergoing "Second" Restoration |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19701116&id=_ZFJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PwwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5492,4298211 |url-status=dead |accessdate=November 10, 2013 |work=Charleston News & Courier |page=1-B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=72 Anson Street - Benjamin Simons Neufville House {{!}} Charleston.com |url=https://charleston.com/charleston-insider/diary-of-a-charleston-tour-guide/72-anson-street-benjamin-simons-neufville-house |access-date=2025-09-26 |website=charleston.com}}</ref>
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