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  • Garden & Gun

    LAUREN NORTHUP

    Mar 16, 2020 5 minutes
    — Written by JOHN KESSLER

    Lauren Northup was sitting in her of- fice, on the second floor of an outbuilding of Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Nathaniel Russell House Museum, when a ray of sunshine beamed through a two-hundred-year-old window at her side and settled on the office door. The door was ajar at just the right angle to reveal a hidden secret: Beneath its layers of glossy white acrylic paint, the surface looked just uneven enough to suggest hand-planed planks. Could this door be original? North-up wondered. And if so, what else here was?

    The two-story, twelve-hundred-square-foot structure had played many roles over its history—a gift shop, a tenement house, a school for girls—but had originally been built as a kitchen house. Downstairs stood two hearths for preparing food and boiling

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