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Super Soloist at Sottile
CHARLESTON, which has slowly become a mecca for musicians, now boasts its own piano prodigy in Micah McLaurin, a 15-year-old native who will be performing next Tuesday at the College of Charleston’s 2009–2010 International Piano Series. This is the third concert in a series featuring Enrique Graf and three of his protégés. Micah will... Read »
Old Age in the New Age
My dear Hattie, how I love her. I came home one day last week and noticed that, after all these years, she had backed her car the entire way up our narrow driveway so as to be facing out. She’s not a particularly good driver, and I smiled. But same thing the next day... Read »
Thomas Lamboll’s Tenements
8–10 Tradd Street • c. 1726 This pair of houses was built back-to-back against a common wall. Each is a mirror image of the other. The gambrel roof has a unique overhang to shed the dormers on the sides. A covenant in a 1726 deed for this property required that the alleys on each... Read »
Daniel Hext Tenement
7 Tradd Street • c. 1740 The area fire of 1740 destroyed all or nearly all houses from Broad Street to Water Street and from East Bay Street to Church Street. Consequently, the houses on both sides of Tradd from East Bay to Church were probably constructed in 1740 and afterward. But in many... Read »
James Gordon House
87 East Bay Street • c. 1792 This is a Charleston single house of unusual height and width. It is one-room wide with a central stair hall in the middle and rooms to either side. The private entrance is off the street, on the left side of the building. It is not a typical... Read »
Looking at Charleston
ALL THE ENTRIES in this series will derive from text and photos by architectural historian Gene Waddell, archivist at the College of Charleston. We hope these excerpts will allow you to benefit from Gene’s scholarly insight into the unique architecture of this city. The origin of Gene’s material is his unpublished, copyrighted architectural guide... Read »
