French Quarter Charleston: a small district with several overlapping histories
Charleston’s French Quarter contains several histories within a compact street network, from religious institutions to commerce and theatrical reuse.
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Explore the neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings of Charleston through 6 articles.
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Charleston City Market: what the market buildings explain and what they do not
Charleston City Market combines a formal market hall with a long series of trading sheds, each serving a different architectural role.
Rainbow Row Charleston: reading a row of mercantile houses beyond their colors
Rainbow Row’s colors are a chapter in twentieth-century preservation, layered onto older merchant buildings.
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The Battery Charleston: a waterfront walk through defense, residence and commemoration
The Battery is a constructed waterfront edge whose walls and public promenade developed through repeated responses to water and urban growth.
Waterfront Park Charleston: the city-water edge as a public place
Waterfront Park gives central Charleston a public harbor edge organized around a pier, lawns, shade and fountains.
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Old Exchange Charleston: a public building with difficult histories to interpret
The Old Exchange contains the overlapping histories of commerce, government, imprisonment and the domestic slave trade.