While you’re stuck at home, we would like to share with you some of our favorite places in Charleston. Join the Preservation Society every week, as we share a virtual hard hat tour through some of Charleston’s most fascinating buildings. The three-story masonry building at the southeast corner of Montagu and Pitt Streets in Harleston Village was likely […]
For Preservation Month, the PSC is sharing two principles of good buildings weekly that can be observed and measured within the built environment. They are intended to provide touch-points for the conversation about architecture and the human response that it provokes. This study shows us how common characteristics of buildings have transcended stylistic, chronological, and typological boundaries, […]
In the fall of 1948, Charleston’s relatively new 1931 Zoning Ordinance was put to the test when a variance request was brought before Charleston’s Board of Zoning Adjustment to construct a 7-story apartment building on the site of the c. 1810 John Cordes Prioleau House at 68 Meeting Street. The hearing initially scheduled for November […]
The Preservation Society of Charleston was instrumental in persuading Charleston City Council to adopt the Planning and Zoning Ordinance of 1931, which was one of the most significant events in the local and national preservation movements. It all began in the 1920s when the South Carolina General Assembly passed enabling legislation to permit cities to […]
For Preservation Month, the PSC is sharing two principles of good buildings weekly that can be observed and measured within the built environment. They are intended to provide touch-points for the conversation about architecture and the human response that it provokes. This study shows us how common characteristics of buildings have transcended stylistic, chronological, and typological boundaries, […]
While you’re stuck at home, we would like to share with you some of our favorite places in Charleston. Join the Preservation Society every week, as we share a virtual hard hat tour through some of Charleston’s most fascinating buildings. The three-story Neoclassical building at 88 Broad Street is believed to have been constructed as a residence between […]