 The William Stone House was built in about 1784 by a Tory merchant who left Charleston for England during the Revolutionary War.An earlier building was destroyed in a fire in 1778, but it had been replaced by the time the tract was sold in 1784.Susan Pringle Frost bought 83 East Bay Street and restored it as a dwelling in 1941, adding a neoclassical balcony to the front and replacing a storefront with a Colonial Revival style door.