A local's eye view
This wonderful entry is across Meeting Street from The South Carolina Society Hall, which was was built in 1804 as the home for a club that was founded in 1737 as “The Two Bit Club.” It later became the “South Carolina Society,” and its home was eponymously named.
This handsome house on Limehouse Street, built circa 1859, has a “masked” piazza — where the brick of the house extends past the actual house and shields the piazza from the street.
This house on Murray Boulevard always has a wonderful floral display.
This is all that remains of the “old” Charleston Museum in Cannon Park. Fortunately, the contents were moved to the museum’s new location before it was consumed by fire. As it did in the old museum, the skeleton of a 40’4″ right whale hangs in the entry. In 1880, the whale had the misfortune of entering Charleston harbor where it was pursued and ultimately captured and brought ashore.
A cool window box and reflection on Atlantic Street.
This beautiful wisteria is on the wall of 2 Water Street — a house built before 1818 by Nathaniel Ingraham, who sailed during the Revolutionary War with John Paul Jones on the famous Bon Homme Richard. Interestingly, the ship is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. Richard was a pseudonym used by Franklin (think Poor Richard’s Almanac).
The garden behind this cool wall on Church Street was designed by the famed landscape architect, Loutrel Briggs.
You can find this beautiful garden at the Simmons-Edwards House on Legare Street, which is popularly known as the Pineapple Gates House.
You can find this floral beauty at the C. Bissell Jenkins House on Murray Boulevard, which was built in 1913. Jenkins was the originator of the reclamation project that led to the completion of Murray Boulevard and the Low Battery. His house was the first built there.
Hidden behind these beautiful blossoms is the Philip Porcher House on Archdale Street, built in 1773. It is on land that was originally a 34 acre plantation outside the walled city of Charlestowne.