Historical Marker Series

South Carolina: Preservation Society of Charleston

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C. 1775 and 1826 This splendid mansion wasbuilt in 1826 by Dr. Joseph Glover, a noted Charleston physician, utilizing the service wing of an older house of about 1775. In 1906it was purchased by the Cavaliere Giovanni Sottile, Consul for ltaly, whose family…
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Built as a suburban villa by a member of the wealthy Vanderhorst family, owners of much of Kiawah Island, the stuccoed brick house stands two stories above a raised basement and has a piazza approached on the main floor by a double, semicircular, brownstone…
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This two-story frame Greek Revival style residence was constructed in 1872 for Civil War photographer George N. Barnard. The house is distinguished by a one-story front porch supported by jigsaw-cut columns and Italianate style balustrades. In 1864, the…
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circa 1840 This substantial three-story Greek Revival Period Charleston single house is constructed of stucco-covered brick and features a two-tiered piazza with Tuscan columns and turned balusters, piazza screen and entrance door complete with pilasters, m…
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The Baker House was constructed in 1912 as the Baker-Craig Sanitarium. This sixty-bed hospital and nursing school was founded by Dr. Archibald E. Baker Sr. and Dr. Lawrence Craig. The Baker House was designed by John D. Newcomer and Ernest V. Richards, prom…
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circa 1860This three story late Regency Style Single House was constructed circa 1860 by prominentCharleston physician Eli Geddings. In 1825,Geddings became the first graduate of theMedical College in Charleston, now known asthe Medical University of South …
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The construction of this circa 1840 three-and-a halfstory single house is attributed to Charlestoncotton planter and factor Theodore D. Jervey.The house was built in the Greek Revival stylebut was altered in 1886 by William Ashmead Courtenay who purchased t…
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Rainbow Row represents the longest cluster of intact Georgian row houses in the United States. The earliest structures on this portion of East Bay Street, between Tradd and Elliott Street, were built by 1680. The buildings were constructed on lots 7 to 10 o…
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circa 1855 During the last months of the Civil War, several Union officers were confined by the Confederacy in this house. As retaliation for this imprisonment, President Lincoln moved six hundred Confederate prisoners from Fort Delaware to the stockade at …
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circa 1816 Moses C. Levy, a Polish born King Street merchant, built this valuable Federal style single house between 1811 and 1816. The house is located on land originally owned by Henry Laurens, one of the wealthiest merchants in the United States and Pres…
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