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CHS07 City Market, Charleston SC. The present Market Hall errected in 1841, was designed by Edward B. White in the Roman Revival style. Sheep and bull skulls decorate the stucco frieze, symbolizing the presence of a meat market. In the past, the proximity of the meat market was indicated by buzzards who scavanged the debris thrown in the streets at the end of the day. For providing that valuable service, the buzzards were protected by law. The second floor of the Market Hall houses the Confederate Museum and is the headquarters of the Charleston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

CHS52 Drayton House Charleston SC. This Victorian mansion, located at 25 East Battery, was built in 1885 by Charles H. Drayton, who mined phosphate deposits at his family plantation, Drayton Hall on the Ashley River. Medieval European and Chinese architectural influences are combined in this structure designed by Charleston architect W.B.W. Howe. When built, the building's white bricks with black mortar were exposed. Subsequently, the house was stuccoed.
The Drayton House is often referred to as the "Chippendale" house. Thomas Chippendale was one of the leading cabinetmakers and one of the most perplexing figures in the history of furniture. Chippendale designs fall into three main styles: Gothic, Rococo and Chinese.

CHS55 O'Donnell's Folley charleston SC. This handsome dwelling built between 1852 and 1856 by Patrick O'Donnell. He set out to build a house for his bride-to-be that would stand forth in an area of outstanding houses. The legend has it the construction took so long, she married someone else, leaving the Irishman wiith a tall house with many bedrooms, and no wife to fill them. O'Donnell lived there till his death in 1882, and ided a bachelor. The house was later owned by Thomas Riley McGahan, a cousin of Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell was so impressed with the tales of McGahans wife Emma Fourgeaud, that she patterned "Melanie" after her.

CHS56 Boone Hall Plantation Charleston SC. A 738 acre estate, Boone Hall was a cotton plantation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and covered more than 17,000 acres. Brick and tile were handmade on the plantation, and these same bricks may still be seen in the mansion, cotton gin house, slave cabins, circular smokehouse and in the formal gardens' walls and walks. By 1904, Boone Hall Plantation had developed the world's largest pecan groves; acres of these groves are still productive. The plantation was used for extensive location filming in the mini-series, "North and South," Parts 1 and 2.

CHS57 Magnolia Garden House Charleston SC. Magnolia began its history as a Plantation Estate Garden and Flowerdale in the 1680s. By 1777 more than 10 acres of the estate were gardens. Today, this 500 acre plantation boasts 50 acres of lawn and gardens, both formal and informal.
Originally a summer home, this pre-Revolutionary house was shipped down river in 1867 and reconstructed at its present location. The house has undergone many changes over the last 125 years. After recent renovations, the house appears as it did in a photograph featured in an 1875 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. "Bewitchingly lovely", the author called the house and gardens. Gone is the Victorian facade that was so well known, replaced with Greek Revival columns from roof to ground and a porch running around the entire structure.

CHS58 Huguenot Church, Charleston SC. Was organized by French Protestants who arrived on ship Richmond in 1680. The original church was built in 1687 and was later deliberately destroyed in an attempt to stop the great fire of 1796. A second church was built in 1800 and services were timed according to the tides to accomodate people traveling by boat from nearby plantations. The present structure was designed by architect Edward Brickell White in 1844-1845 and was Charleston's first Gothic Revival style church. For many years the church was only used periodically for services sponsored by the Huguenot Society of S.C. But in 1993, an active congregation was revived and is currently the only French Calvinist congregation in the United States.

CHS59 Sottile House Charleston SC. Was built in 1890 by Samuel Wilson, a King Street merchant and is a fine example of Charleston's response to the Victorian architecture craze of the late 1800's. It was later purchased by James Sottile after Wilson's death and sold to Albert Sottile in 1912. The house remained in the family until 1964 when it was bought by the College of Charleston. The "Sottile House" has been featured in many magazines and appeared on the cover of the National Historic Preservation Magazine in 1990. For many years the house served as a residence hall for female students. In 1992, the house was renovated and became the home of the Alumni Association and the College of Charleston Foundation.

CHS62 South of Broad "Tan," Charleston, SC. East Bay Street has some of Charleston's first houses built along the waterfront. Bounding east on the Cooper River, there literally was nothing to the east of East Bay but marsh and water. Originally called "Bay Street" or "The Bay," East Bay was the center of a growing commerce.

CHS63 South of Broad "Lavender," Charleston, SC. A commercial structure prior to 1900, this structure was converted to a residence in 1930 by architect, Albert Simons for Mrs. Nicholas Roosevelt.

CHS64 South of Broad "Dark Pink," Charleston, SC. Built in 1918, by Dr. Julius Sosnowski, this residence was originally a dark red brick. This East Bay structure was stuccoed during a 1979 renovation.

CHS65 South of Broad "Cream," Charleston, SC. The importance of the waterfront sites to the commerce of Charleston was recognized early. In 1700, an Act of the Assembly authorized the building of a brick seawall. It served to protect the riverbanks in front of the town from frequent storms.

CHS66 South of Broad "Light Pink," Charleston, SC. Also know as "1 Tradd," this single house faces Tradd Street, "the little street that runs from Cooper River past Mr. Tradd's house." In 1927, Mrs.T.W. Punnett purchased and renovated it. Mrs. Punnett was a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

CHS67 Middleton Place, Charleston, SC. Today's Middleton Place House is all that remains of what was once a three-part residential complex, consisting of a main house and a dependency building, or flanker, on either side. The main house, which dated to the late 1730's and is now in ruins, was the home of John Williams. Mary, his daughter, in 1741 married Henry Middleton, a wealthy young planter. The house and surrounding 200 acres were part of her bridal dowry. Middleton began construction of the gardens, which according to tradition took the work of 100 slaves laboring seasonally for ten years to complete. In 1755 he added the two-story north and south flankers. On February 22, 1865, a foraging party from the 56th New York Volunteers, part of General Sherman's army, looted and burned Middleton Place. The main house and north flanker were almost completely destroyed, their fragile walls leveled twenty years later in the Great Earthquake of 1886. The south flanker was less damaged and Williams Middleton was able to restore and enlarge it in the 1870s as the family residence. Open to the public since February, 1975, the Middleton Place House Museum displays a collection of family furniture, paintings, silver, porcelain and books that give meaning to the story of life at Middleton Place.

CHS68 Dr. Vincent LeSeigneur House, Charleston, SC. Located on Church Street, the Dr. Vincent LeSeignour House is a 3 1/2 story stuccoed, Adamesque single house with a two tiered piazza. The house was built between September 0f 1811 and June of 1812 by George Keenan, a grocery merchant. In 1814 the home was purchased by Dr. Vincent LeSeigneur, a native of Caen, Normandy, who significantly improved the property. Dr. LeSeigneur immigrated to Charleston in 1793 as a refugee from the Santo Domingan slave revolution. While in Charleston, he was noted for operating a hospital for slaves known as the House of Health, which was located at the corner of Broad and Savage Streets. After the doctor's death in 1846 the property was the home of the related Hopkins - Mikell - Lebby - Jenkins family for 125 years with the title descending in the female line. The interior features handsome woodwork and decorative plaster of the Adam, Regency, and Victorian periods.

CHS69 Open Air City Market, Charleston, SC. The land for the City Market was donated by the Pinckney Family in 1788 and was originally designed as Charleston's major market for food. Today, sweetgrass basketmakers can be found in the City Market demonstrating their ancient craft, unique to the Charleston area. This art form was brought to the lowcountry by slaves from West Africa more than 300 years ago, and continues to be passed from generation to generation.

CHS70 7 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC. Built about 1788 by Josiah Smith, this grand charleston "double house" has a layer of brick under the "black" cypress weatherboarding. From 1881-1927 the Charleston Club owned and occupied this house. Their "Charleston Club Punch" was famous. It called for "one volume green tea; one volume California brandy; one-fourth volume Santa Cruz rum; lemon juice and sugar to taste; ice; lemon peel and, just before serving, one volume mineral water."

CHS71 Porcher-Simonds House, Charleston, SC. Built in 1856 for cotton broker Francis J. Porcher, this house originally had a pedimented center pavilion and masked piazza in the Italianate style. In 1894, John C. Simonds purchased the house and remodeled it in the popular Italian Renaissance Revival style. The two front piazzas, one square and one oval, were added as well as a semi-oval wing on the south side. The alleged story behind the unique style of the house is said to be because of a disagreement between husband and wife over the specific style - one wanted the Italianate style while the other wanted the Renaissance style. The contractor impatient and tired of the indecisiveness of the couple, decided to blend the two styles, thus the eclectic combination of carved textures and Ionic order columns.

CHS72 Best Friend of Charleston II was the first steam locomotive to go into commercial service on the South Carolina Railroad.  Ordered march 1830 and steamed for the first time on November 2, it began public service January 15, 1831.  During a run on June 17, 1831 the boiler exploded.  After the accident, the engine was rebuilt and renamed Phoenix.  The first section of railroad track was laid from Charleston to Branchville, the first railroad junction in America.

CHS73 Long Bridge, Charleston, SC. Through Magnolia Plantation and its gardens in Charleston, South Carolina, now has seven bridges of varying design, its internationally recognized Long Bridge has become the pictorial symbol of the estate.  Built in the 1840s by the owner of the plantation during the Civil War era, the Reverend John Grimke Drayton, the bridge spans what had originally been a natural river marsh slip, dammed off in the early 1700s to create a rice field.  That rice field was then deepened to form a lake as a major feature of the Reverend Drayton's garden of informal British design.

CHS74 Central Station, Charleston, SC.  This double fire station was built in 1887-88 at 262 Meeting Street as part of the establishment of the City Fire Department.  The park is called Courtenay Square, for William Ashmead Courtenay, mayor of Charleston from 1879-88.  The iron pavilion over the artesian well was erected in 1845.  Several attempts were made, starting in 1845, to sink an artesian well at this location, with poor results.  Finally the city contracted with F.Spangler, an experienced well borer from the Northwest, in 1876, and his efforts were successful.  The Central Station is the opldest fire station still in operation in the United States.

CHS75 Classic Charleston, Charleston, SC.  This classic Charleston house was built for Mary Scott in 1813.  It is based on the famous Charleston "single house" with its side piazza.  The side piazza shades this style house from the summer sun and heat.  It also served as a processional, ceremonial entrance to private quarters of the home.

CHS77 5 East Battery, Charleston, SC.  Built in 1849, the mansion is the second house along Charleston's famous Battery.  The walls, made of local brick, are 32 inches thick.  Despite their thickness, the house was severly damaged during the earthquake of 1886.  The house is sometimes referred to as the "pink palace" because of the liberal use of pink paint on the exterior of the house and garden area.  During the Civil War, it was the home of Dr.St.Julien Ravenel, the builder of the Confederate torpedo boat, "David".  The cigar shaped vessel, 50 feet long and powered by steam, attacked and seriously damaged the Union frigate, New Ironsides, on Oct 5, 1863.  In 1953, the house was purchased by Dr.Joe Sam Palmer, and is currently operated as a Bed and Breakfast.

CHS78 John Rutledge House, Charleston, SC  This house was built in 1763, prior to the American Revolution, by John Rutledge, first Governor of South Carolina and a signer of the United States Constitution.  Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act Congress, the Continental Congress and the U.S.Constitutional Convention.  He also served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and Commander-in-Chief of the South Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War.  Much of the history of South carolina and the United States can be traced to meetings and writings that took place in the large ballroom and adjoining library.

CHS79 Joseph Manigault House   Built in 1803, is one of Charleston's finest examples of Adam style architecture.  The house was designed by Gabriel Manigault for his brother Joseph.  Both men were lowcountry rice planters of considerable means.  Gabriel Manigault was educated abroad in Geneva and London and owned an extensive library on architecture.  Gabriel was considered by many to be the first Charleston architect in the modern sense of the term, in that he prepared designs which were executed by a builder.  The Manigault House is registered as a National Historic Landmark and is owned and maintained by the Charleston Museum.

CHS80 Edmonston-Alston House, Charleston, SC.   This federal style house was built in 1825 by Charles Edmondston, a prominent merchant and wharf owner.  Thirty years later it was purchased by Charles Alston, a wealthy rice planter.  The house's grandeur and elegance is typical of the homes built along Charleston's waterfront.  The first two floors are open to the public, operated by the Middleton Place Foundation.

CHS81 Cooper River Bridge, Charleston, SC.   In the early 1900's the only way to travel from Charleston to "the neck," now known as Mt. Pleasant, was by ferry.  As automobiles grew in popularity, the decision was made to construct a bridge across the river.  The Cooper River Bridge took 14 months to build and cost almost six million dollars.  It opened to traffic in 1929 and was later renamed the Grace Memorial Bridge in honor of former Charleston mayor John P.Grace.  At the time its length of 2.7 miles made it the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world.  In the early 1960s traffic had increased so much it became evident that another bridge would be needed.  The second bridge, named the Silas N.Pearman Bridge for South Carolina's Commissioner of Public Works, first opened to traffic in 1966.  Every year since 1978, the Pearman Bridge plays host to the Cooper River Bridge Run.  The run, started by Marcus Newberry, is the 8th largest 10K run in the world, 5th largest in the United States.  The race has grown to more than 30,000 participants and brings in nearly 10 million dollars to the local economy.

CHS82 Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, SC.   A 738-acre estate, Boone Hall was a cotton plantation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and covered more than 17,000 acres.  Brick and tile were handmade on the plantation, and these same bricks may still be seen in the mansion, cotton gin house, slave cabins, circular smokehouse and in the formal gardens' walls and walks.  By 1904, Boone Hall Plantation had developed the world's largest pecan groves; acres of these groves are still productive.  The plantation was used for extensive location filming in the mini-series, "North and South," Parts 1 and 2.

CHS83 Middleton Place, Charleston, SC.   Today's Middleton Place is all that remains of what was once a three-part residential complex, consisting of a main house and a dependency building, or flanker, on either side.  The main house, which dates back to the late 1730s is now in ruins, and was the home of John Williams.  Mary, his daughter, in 1741 married Henry Middleton, a wealthy young planter.  The house and surrounding 200 acres were part of her bridal dowry.  Middleton began construction of the gardens, which took the work of 100 slaves laboring seasonally for ten years to complete.  In 1755 he added the two-story north and south flankers.  On February 22, 1865, a foraging party from the 56th New York Volunteers, part of General Sherman's army, looted and burned Middleton Place.  The main house and north flanker were almost completely destroyed, their fragile walls leveled twenty years later in the Great Earthquake of 1886.  The south flanker was less damaged and William Middleton was able to restore and enlarge it in the 1870s as the family residence.  Open to the public since February, 1975, the Middleton Place Museum displays a collection of family furniture, paintings, silver, porcelain and books that give meaning to the story of life at Middle Place.

CHS84 Charleston City Market, Charleston, SC   It began nearly 220 years ago when a wealthy Charleston family willed land to the town of Charleston to be used as a public market.  Built in 1847, near the waterfront, the building has survived tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, and a major earthquake.
The Market is used by the Daughters of the Confederacy for the preservation of articles connected with the War Between the States.  Today there are a total of four buildings with hundreds of vendors selling an assortment of wares.  The market is one of the most popular places to visit in Charleston.

CHS85 17 East Battery, Charleston, SC  This home illustrates the beauty and grace of the historic seaport town of Charleston.  Charleston's old and historic district encompasses more than 3,600 structures dating back to the 1700's and includes over 1,000 acres of land.  This house showcases the grand porches, elaborate wrought iron work, and distinctive architecture of this charming city.
Perhaps Rhett Butler, in the film Gone with the Wind, best described Charleston when he stated, "I'm going away.  Perhaps to Charleston...where there's a little bit of grace and charm left in this world."

CHS86 Calhoun Mansion   Built in 1876 by George Walton Williams, a wealthy merchant and banker.  The mansion was described in the New York, Atlanta and Charleston newspapers as "the handsomest and most complete home in the South, if not in the country."  Mr. Williams spared no expense in the design and construction of his 24,000 square foot "elegant Victorian mansion."  The house consists of 35 main rooms, a 90-foot cupola, a music room with a 45-foot skylight and a stairwell with 75-foot vaulted ceilings.  The mansion and gardens have been beautifully restored and are open to the public.

CHS87 St. Michael's Church II, Charleston, SC.   The cornerstone of St. Michael's Church was laid in February 1752.  However, construction was delayed and the first service was not until February 1761.  Apparently, the church looked so much like an English metropolitan church "that it was difficult not to imagine one's self in London."  The gate was designed in 1840 by German-born iron craftsman, J.A.Justi.

CHS88 Nathaniel Russell House, Charleston, SC.   Built in 1808 by Nathaniel and Sarah Russell, is one of America's most important Federal period townhouses.  The graceful free-flying staircase which spirals unsupported for three floors, is a testament to the skill of early Charleston craftsmen.
Today it is owned by The Historic Charleston Foundation and operates as a house museum and the foundation's headquarters.

CHS89 Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, SC   Magnolia began its history as a Plantation Estate and Flowerdale in the 1680's.  By 1717 more than 10 acres of the estate were gardens.  Today, this 500 acre plantation boasts 50 acres of lawns and gardens, both formal and informal.  Though the gardens now have seven bridges of varying design, the most recognizable is the Long Bridge, which is a pictorial symbol of the estate.  Originally a summer home, this pre-Revolutionary house was shipped down river in 1867 and reconstructed at its present location.  The house has undergone many changes over the last 125 years.  Today, the house and gardens are open to the public.

CHS90 St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Charleston, SC   St. Matthew's was founded in 1840 by members of Charleston's German population.  The nave was dedicated in 1872.  The steeple is 255 feet high, the tallest structure in the "Holly City."  Exquisite stained glass windows grace the building.  St. Matthew's, Charleston "Serving Christ from the heart of the historic city."

CHS91 Summerall Chapel, Charleston, S.C.   The cornerstone of the chapel was laid on September 7, 1936.  The first service was held almost a year later on September 19, 1937, and the chapel was dedicated on April 10, 1938 as the Cadet Chapel.  After General Summerall's retirement as president of the Citidel in June of 1953, the name was officially changed to the General Charles Pelot Summerall Chapel.  Cruciform in design, the Chapel is a shrine of religion, of patriotism and of remembrance.  The great chancel window, located directly behind the alter, was dedicated in 1942 as a memorial to all Citadel graduates who gave their lives in their country's cause.  The inscription across the front of Summerall Chapel reads, "Remember Now Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth."

CHS92 Meeting Street Sisters,Charleston, Sc   This picturesque row of Charleston houses is located at 23, 25 and 27 Meeting Street.  Legend has it that a father built the houses for his three daughters.  The three daughters attributed their long lives to having never been married.

CHS93 Charleston Battery,
   20 South Battery,  Built in 1843, it was remodeled in 1870 and enlarged in the Second Empire Style.  Today, the house is a private residence with a small hotel in the basement and outbuilding.
22 South Battery,  The first house on this site was originally built as a double tenement with 24 South battery and connected by a passageway that is still in existence today.  In 1858, after destroying the original structure, Nathaniel Russell Middleton built this larger, more elegant Italinate home.
24 South Battery,  A 2-1/2 story wooden home that was the remaining half off an 18th century double tenement, was purchased in 1870 by George S. Cook as an investment.
This row of houses is one of the most photographed sites in Charleston on the famous Battery.  Today, most are private residences.

CHS94 Charleston Battery II,
   26 South Battery,  This house was designed in 1853.  The Italianate Villa style was part of the romantic movement that was a reaction to the formal classicism of the 18th century.
28 South Battery,  Built in 1861, the architecture is an intriguing bland of Italinate and Gothic Revival styles.
30 South Battery,  James E. Spear built this three story Italinate house c. 1860 as his residence.
These elegant homes capture the charm of Charleston and are one of the most fashionable residential districts.

KCO01 USS Yorktown CV-10
Class: Essex Aircraft Carrier
Launched: January 21, 1943
Commissioned: April 15, 1943
Decommissioned: 1970
Berth at Patriots Point: 1975
Length: 856 feet   Beam: 93 feet
Draft: 30 feet   Displacement: 33,292 tons
Armament: 90 aircraft; four 5-inch 38 caliber guns; 40 mm and 20mm guns.


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