Some serious holiday trimming on this 1740 house on East Bay Street. An interesting story about the house is that the first resident, Anne Boone, was the granddaughter of one of the people who executed King Charles I in 1649 — leading to his son moving to Charleston as a refugee.

This beautiful house, on Murray Boulevard, is nicely dressed for the holidays. With a wonderful view of the Low Battery and the Ashley River, whether looking at or from the house.

The house that this gorgeous Charleston doorway is in dates to Colonial times, but the door itself is a more recent addition. Located on Rainbow Row, as with most buildings on this stretch of East Bay Street, the first floor was originally used commercially (in this case as a counting house and then as a grain and feed store). In 1941, when Susan Pringle Frost — the founder of the modern day preservation movement in Charleston — restored the building she replaced the existing storefront with this door.

This c. 1835 house on South Battery glows in the early evening. At the time it was built it would have had a great view of the Ashley River. The 1910 Murray Boulevard project changed all that.

Built in 1850, this architecturally diverse antebellum house on Franklin Street was home to French consul in the 1870’s and 1880’s.

This gorgeous colonial house, built c. 1718 on Tradd Street, later became the home of the well-known artist, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. She lived there from 1938 until her death in 1979.

This pink house on Franklin Street is just above Broad Street, making it a SNOB (Slightly North of Broad).