Read the original Post and Courier article here CAINHOY — The developer of the Oak Bluff subdivision must stop all work and arrange for a new archaeological survey of a portion of the property that includes an African American burial ground. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, which has jurisdiction over gravesites, sent […]
View the original City Paper article here The Preservation Society of Charleston is offering a handful of new events throughout May, coinciding with National Preservation Month. The events kicked off last week, with the group’s spring membership meeting and member appreciation day at the Preservation Society’s King Street retail store. A sold-out hard-hat tour of 9 Limehouse […]
Last night, the Board of Architectural Review-Large unanimously DENIED the proposed 8-story, mixed-use, residential building at 295 Calhoun Street. An incredible outpouring of community opposition reinforced the PSC’s objections to the building’s overwhelming height and mass, and total lack of relationship to Charleston’s unique architectural character. The public’s response was one of the strongest we have ever seen on a single project and sent a […]
Purvis Drugs, pharmacy at 42.5 Morris Street, Walter Boags, 1951, courtesy of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. CHARLESTON, S.C. For nearly 200 years, Morris Street in downtown Charleston was more than an address. In the 1850s, it was where newly emancipated African Americans began their lives as free people. It […]
Read column here In some ways, King Street has always had a Target on it. Residents, business owners, preservationists and city officials have long held very specific — and often conflicting — ideas about Charleston’s premier shopping district. They bicker about the mix of stores, parking, the proliferation of bars and hotels … even the Christmas tree […]
View original Post and Courier article here CAINHOY — This place along the Wando River once was remote. Millennia past, it was inhabited by native tribes. In the late 1600s, it was colonized by Europeans. In the early 1700s, Presbyterians called this area home and established their Dissenter Church. The McDowell Cemetery, located on […]