The longest cluster of Georgian houses in the United States, Rainbow Row is an iconic Charleston image with their Caribbean color scheme. One of the popular myths regarding the colors is that they were painted that way so that drunken sailors would be more easily able to find the house in which they were bunking. The true story is that in 1931 Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge purchased a number of the houses to restore them and selected the Caribbeans colors… and other neighboring owners eventually followed her lead and created the “rainbow.”
A local's eye view
