CHARLESTON — A city board rejected a request to build an additional bedroom suite onto the back of the Harleston Village home associated with Denmark Vesey after neighbors mounted opposition .

But the 5-1 vote by the Board of Zoning Appeals on Sept. 17 doesn’t put an end to proposed changes to the National Historic Landmark at 56 Bull St.

A significant figure in Charleston’s fraught racial history, Vesey, who helped found what would later become Emanuel AME Church , was hanged in 1822 after news of a planned revolt he organized reached White elites.

After the Bull Street home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, tool markings from circular saws and modern cut nails dated the house’s original construction to around 1830, after Vesey was executed. But it is believe

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