O’Donnell’s Folly

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:

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and on the front porches of Charleston.