Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Houses/Buildings/Gates

Charleston, SC houses are renowned for their beauty and elegance. Enter here.
Charleston, SC is full of amazing houses and gardens. This is just another one.
The iron fence outside the First Baptist Church in Charleston, SC provides for a beautiful frame for its impressive doors and columns.
This may be the best dressed house in all of Charleston, SC for Halloween. Nothing like a colonial era house dressed to celebrate.
The Salem Baptist Church in Charleston, SC is appropriately named and slightly spooky looking during Halloween week.
Charleston, SC City Hall is a beautiful building that was originally built around 1800 as one of the first 8 branches of the First Bank of the United States.
The Cathedral of St Luke and St. Paul in the early evening light in Charleston, SC.
The beautiful houses of Charleston, SC have wonderful details... even the porches can have a special panache.
One of the interesting architectural details of Charleston, SC is where two significant houses are built literally back to back.
Charleston , SC is known for its spectacular gates. This one is fairly new and can be found in the Charlotte Street Park, next to the Port.
This gorgeous house is just one of many in Charleston, SC. Love the way the jasmine grows on the trees.
The US Customs House in Charleston, SC is a beautiful federal building. Construction took 26 years to complete, as it was interrupted by the Civil War.
Magnolia's, one of the old guard of Charleston, SC, restaurants looks pretty sexy at night. Oprah called it one of her favorite restaurants.
There are so many spectacular colonial and antebellum houses in Charleston SC... this is just another one (which was built in 1848).
This wonderful house in downtown Charleston, SC has roosters on its gate posts and used to have live roosters and chickens living in the garden.
Charleston, SC has quite a few beautiful little pink houses.. this one is on Gibbes Street.
The Pink House (yes, that's its name) in Charleston, SC is the oldest building in Charleston and one of the oldest in SC.
This is one of the prettiest combinations of a beautiful wrought iron gate and a gorgeous Charleston house.
The French Huguenot Church in Charleston, SC traces its congregation back to the early 1680's. This is the third church building on this site. It was built in 1845.
All these house on Tradd Street in Charleston, SC were built in the early/mid-1700's. Still looking good today!
The wonderful ironwork found all over Charleston, SC are works of art, as are their shadows.
One of Charleston's most visible houses on East Battery, which is now a B&B, is hidden a bit here behind a beautiful Live Oak tree.
The early morning sun filters on to Queen Street in Charleston, SC, lighting up its beautiful antebellum row houses.
The early morning sun reflecting off some of the wonderful houses along East Battery in Charleston, SC.
While Charleston, SC is known as a city with a very low skyline (in keeping with its colonial roots and showcasing its church steeples), there are a few exceptions. This is the People's Building on Broad Street, glowing in the very early morning sun.
The ironwork, gardens and houses of Charleston, SC are famous for a pretty good reason.
The early Charleston, SC morning sun hitting the upper portions of the Dock Street Theatre (America's 1st theater) on Church Street.
A beautiful Charleston, SC entryway... complete with magnificent walls and gates and a bust over the doorway.
The details of Charleston, SC are wonderful. This is a knocker on a pre-colonial house on Church Street.
Rainbow Row in Charleston, SC is one of the city's iconic images. This beautiful building anchors the south end of the Row.
This beautiful house in Charleston, SC, found on Queen Street, is known as a "tenement."
This beautiful house and garden in Charleston, SC is located at 13 Meeting Street.
This purple accented house (including a bumble bee above the address) is located on Spring Street in Charleston, SC.
The setting sun in Charleston, SC, lights up this beautiful building which is one of the St. Philips Church outlying buildings.
This unusual Charleston, SC house could use a little TLC, but has beautiful bones and is located right in the middle of the South of Broad neighborhood.
People travel from all over the world to see the houses of Charleston, SC. This is just another one.
There are gorgeous iron gates all over Charleston, SC. This beautiful set can be found on King Street.
The Powder Magazine is the oldest public building in South Carolina, built in 1713. It was built to store the city's supply of gunpowder.
This beautiful antebellum Greek Revival style house and its accompanying fence can be found on Limehouse Street in Charleston, SC.
The houses of Charleston, SC are historic and beautiful. This one can be found on lower Meeting Street.