The Central Baptist Church, with its distinctive steeple can be found on Radcliffe Street. Built in about 1891, it is the first church in the city to be designed, constructed and financed solely by African Americans. 

This door is the incredible entrance to the Col. John Stuart House on Tradd Street, which was built about 1772. The colonel was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the southern British colonies when the American Revolution broke out. He stayed loyal to the crown, which resulted in his arrest… and then his escape to Florida. He lived out his time there (trying to turn the native Americans against the colonists), dying in 1779.

This elegant house on Ashley Avenue has a storied past, including being the home of Andrew Magrath — the last governor of South Carolina under the Confederate States of America. Magrath was imprisoned with two other southern governors for his role as a leader of the Confederacy. Here’s an interesting video about the house.

Some brilliant blue Charleston skies over the “Four Corners of Law.” Did you know that Robert Ripley of Ripley’s Believe It or Not coined that phrase in the 1930’s? Cool.

This Tradd Street jasmine-capped gate leads to the entrance of the c. 1736 Hext Tenement on the right. You will have squeeze down the walkway, as the Col. George Chicken House (c. 1731) is a very close neighbor.

This handsome house on Tradd Street was built around 1765. Back then it had a very different view — both of  “Councellair’s Creek,”  which is long gone, and the marshes of the Ashley River.