The Calhoun Mansion at night is quite a sight to see!
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Revolving Door
This beautiful house on Legare Street was saved from decay by the Historic Charleston Foundation and their amazing preservation tool, the Revolving Fund. HCF buys old properties, restores and sells them… and then uses those funds to buy and save the next. It’s a very effective and cool tool.
Guinea Fowl
This free roaming flock of guinea fowl are frequently spotted on Lamboll Street and South Battery. No one knows where they came from, but they are now just one more set of interesting residents in downtown Charleston.
Enter Here
A beautiful gate, walkway and entrance on Tradd Street — one of the few streets that full transverses the peninsula.
Just Another Brick…
This line of bricks represents where the wall (more specifically, a “redan”) of the original walled city of Charleston once was. It was identified during an archaeological dig by the “Walled City Task Force.” You can find it along the top of the cobblestones of South Adger’s Wharf and through the adjacent parking lot. Pretty cool.
Side Door
This cool door is actually the side entrance to a grand house built in 1792 on Meeting Street. It originally opened on to what was then called “Ladson Court” — now Ladson Street, which is a full street connecting Meeting and King Streets.
Floral Battery
The the oleander along the High Battery is looking beautiful this year. As pretty as it is, it is also poisonous. Legend has it that during the Civil War it was used to brew poisonous tea which was then served to Union soldiers — and drinking it could be fatal.
King Street
Spring in Charleston is gorgeous. This pretty scene was on lower King Street. One of the oldest streets in Charleston, it was named after King Charles II of England.
A Rose Is A Rose
These roses nicely accent the C. Bissell Jenkins House, located at the corner of Murray Boulevard and Limehouse Street. The house was the first built along Murray (the Low Battery) in 1913.
Old Exchange Building
Built in 1761-1771, the Old Exchange Building on East Bay Street is one of the most important colonial era buildings in Charleston, and the United States. Many important things have happened in its halls over time, but one of the most significant is that it is where the first local reading of the Declaration of Independence took place.