A local's eye view
These wonderful window boxes are on the Patrick O’Donnell House (aka O’Donnell’s Folly) on King Street. The largest Italianate house in Charleston, it will always be linked to President Barack in that he directly referred to the house’s amazing piazzas in his first presidential election night acceptance speech:
Built in 1760, this house beautiful house on Meeting Street did not receive its curves until an 1840’s renovation. Among its prominent residents over the years was General Pierre G.T. Beauregard, the commander of the Confederate Forces in Charleston.
A beautiful entrance to an 1840 house on Bull Street — right across the street from 60 Bull Cafe.
This beautiful house on Limehouse Street was built by a wealthy cotton factor in 1857. It used to have a water view, as the original seawall ran in front of it.
The cornerstone for the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Broad Street was laid in 1890. The construction of the church was finally completed in 2010, when the steeple was added. The Cathedral itself was opened, however, in 1907.
This layered view of Charleston is along Tradd Street, just before the corner of King Street. Across the street is a house that was built in 2003. Before that, one of the last businesses operating South of Broad was located there — a gas station (the Fort Sumter Filling Station) that was built in the 1930’s.
These beautiful camellias are at the C. Bissell Jenkins House on Murray Boulevard. 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.
A wonderfully decorated house on Orange Street. The house was built in 1769 by Charles Pinckney, who was the father of the Charles Pinckney who was a signer of the US Constitution, and also a governor of SC, a US senator and a member of the House of Representatives.
A 1938 house on Murray Boulevard, facing the Ashley River, all dressed up for the season.
This handsome house on Bull Street, built c. 1802, was once owned by Nicholas Harleston, whose family the Harleston Village neighborhood is named.