A local's eye view
You can feel the history of Chalmers Street in the early morning light. The Pink House (on the left) is one of the oldest buildings in South Carolina — built sometime between 1694 and 1712. Not only is it painted pink, but it is made of pinkish Bermuda Stone… hence its name.
Early morning on East Bay Street — the flicker of the gas lights is mesmerizing. You can find this just a block below Rainbow Row, heading towards the Battery.
The John Rutledge House on Broad Street is now a wonderful inn. When it was built for the SC governor and signer of the US Constitution, it was only two stories tall. The third story was added in 1853 by a later owner.
Built c 1852, the handsome house to which these entrances belong is the only antebellum house on the block of Logan between Tradd and Broad Streets that survived the Great Fire of 1861.
A gorgeous start to a Charleston day. Adger’s Wharf, on the right, has been used by the Charleston Branch Pilots Association as its home since 1890. Their role of guiding ships safely in and out of Charleston harbor (a function which they trace back to ancient Greece and Rome) is critical to the operations of the very busy port.
These handsome houses on Church Street were built around 1906-07, replacing an industrial complex owned by the Charleston Hydraulic Press Company. The use of the blue on the porch ceilings should help ensure they will not have “haints” (or evil spirits, ghosts).
The spire of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Broad Street— the largest church in Charleston — glows in the early morning light.
Charleston Harbor in the early morning light. Right next to where passengers of the cruise ships get on and off, there is a small pier and building which houses the restaurant Fleet Landing. The US Navy built that pier and building in 1942 to off-load sailors and supplies, which were used in the general maintenance and re-supplying of ships.
This little pink house can be found on King Street, just a few steps from White Point Garden.
This pretty heart is on the door to 78 Church Street. While they are now combined into one house, originally 76 Church was a separate house — and it is where DuBose Heyward wrote the novel Porgy (which was turned into the famed opera, Porgy and Bess).