Left: PSC Advocacy Team discuss conceptual design ideas with architect Christian Sottile; Right: Community stakeholders attend an “Open House Pin-Up” to review design progress Last week, the Preservation Society was pleased to participate in a multi-day design charrette held by Sottile and Sottile, Evening Post Industries, and Greystar for a major new building slated for […]
Rendering of proposed apartment complex at 1142 Morrison Drive. Source: March 23, 2022 BAR-L Image Overview Last night, the Board of Architectural Review-Large unanimously denied a proposal for a 424-unit apartment complex at 1142 Morrison Drive. This is one of the largest development proposals to come forward in recent years, measuring over 1,000 linear feet […]
Post and Courier reporter interviews U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Archaeologist, Rick Kanaski on Jehossee Island in February, 2022. This Sunday’s Post and Courier profiled ongoing preservation efforts at Jehossee Island. The front-page article and accompanying editorial highlighted coalition work the PSC has spearheaded to safeguard the important history of the former rice plantation once inhabited by one […]
Read the original Post and Courier article here. Contractor Beekman Webb checks his phone for an earlier image of the Jehossee Island Overseer’s House (in background), which he helped fix up. Robert Behre/Staff The role of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to conserve, protect and enhance our nation’s fish, wildlife and plants, so […]
Read the original Post and Courier article here. Rick Kanaski, regional archaeologist and historic preservation officer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, walks toward the former overseer’s house on Jehossee Island on Feb. 28, 2022. Gavin McIntyre/Staff JEHOSSEE ISLAND — This uninhabited island in the Lowcountry’s ACE Basin was the site of one of […]
On an unassuming property at the peninsula’s northern edge, the land holds more than it appears. The Heriot Street Cemetery has scant remaining evidence of the lives interred there. The majority of its headstones are overgrown. But ongoing research reveals that this forgotten burial ground is the final resting place of over 1300 Charlestonians of […]