These are the steps to the front door of the Simmons-Edwards House (c. 1800), better known as the Pineapple Gates House, on Legare Street. The very cool curlicue appears on both sides of the bottom step.

This cool wall, gate and house are well dressed on Orange Street.

Chalmers Street is known as the home for The Pink House… just down the street from this pink house.

The Simmons-Edwards House on Legare Street — better known as the Pineapple Gates House — has a wonderful history. Included in its history is that in the 1990’s it was owned by the notorious art dealer Andrew Crispo — who was implicated in the kidnapping and murder of a Norwegian Fashion Institute of Technology student.

John Ashe, who built the house in the middle c. 1782, gave the land to his daughter for the house on the left — which she and her husband built in 1820. Thanks Dad!

The Unitarian Church on Archdale Street took 15 years — beginning in 1772 and it was completed in 1787. Why so long? Construction was halted during the British occupation of Charleston during the Revolutionary War.

Built in 1859, this beautiful house on Limehouse Street is playing a trick on you. From the street, the “masked piazza” creates the illusion that the house is wider than it is by embedding false windows into the brick wall — which is simply the end of the upper piazza.