The Daniel Elliott Huger House was the last home of a Royal governor in South Carolina. John Bull bought the property in 1759 from the estate of George Eveleigh. Eveleigh had built a house at 39 Church Street on the large lot that had originally run from Church Street through the block to Meeting Street. The land later passed through the hands of Bull's widow and then to his granddaughters. Historians have been unable to determine which owner was responsible for building the house, but it was probably built around 1760.