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Landmarks of Charleston / Including Description of an Incomparable Stroll

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The work combines a concise civic history with a practical guide to the city’s principal sites, offering both narrative context and visitor-oriented detail. It surveys founding and development, then describes churches, public buildings, grand homes, plantation gardens, waterfront views, and surviving fortifications. An arranged stroll and a separate guide section present recommended routes and individual-site notes, often accompanied by illustrations. A careful index and measured travel advice support readers interested in architectural, horticultural, and historical highlights without presuming specialized knowledge.

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Race Course, Washington 101
Rawdon, Lord 60
Rhett, William, House 14
Roosevelt, Theodore, President 10
Roper Hospital 69
Royal Arms, British 33
Runnymede 35
Rutledge, Edward, Signer 11, 26
John, House 83
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Saint Cecilia Society 19
Sandford, Robert, Off Coast 1
Scotch Church 28
Secession Convention 17, 44
Chairs 77
Shaw Memorial School 98
Sherman, William T., General 38, 45
Sisters of Mercy 80
Slave Market 63
Smith, Robert, Bishop 24
“Solon Shingle,” John E. Owens 57
Stuart, John, House 19
Sugar Factory, Site 96
Summerall, Charles Pelot, General 53
Sutherland, Duke of 28
Sumter, Fort 22
“Sword Gates” 77
Synagogue, Beth Elohim 78
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Taft, William Howard, President 83
Theater, First in Charlestown 24
Thomas, Albert Sidney, Bishop 39
Thomson, John, Auditorium 65
William, Colonel 21
Timrod Monument 58
Trott, Nicholas, House 13
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United States, Custom House 75
Navy Yard 89
Postoffice 75
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Victoria’s Daughter, Queen 70
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Walsh, Emmet, Bishop 83
Washington, George, President 40, 63
Race Course 101
Square 57
William, House 73
Wesleys, John and Charles 30
White Meeting House 26
White Point Gardens (Battery) 65
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Xavier, St. Francis, Infirmary 73
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Yeamans Hall Club 88
Young Men’s Christian Association 78
Young Women’s Christian Association 79

An Incomparable Stroll

1. Site of Granville Bastion, now Omar Temple of the Shrine.
2. The Battery (White Point Gardens).
3. Villa Margharita.
4. William Washington House.
5. Fort Sumter Hotel; site of Princess Louise’s Landing Stage.
6. Miles Brewton House.
7. William Bull House.
8. Lord William Campbell House.
9. Nathaniel Russell House.
10. First (Scotch) Presbyterian Church.
11. Horry (Branford) House.
12. South Carolina Hall.
13. Postoffice (park to the south).
14. County Court House (site of State House burned in 1788).
15. City Hall (former United States Bank).
16. St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.
17. Site of Lee’s Hotel (Mansion House).
18. Confederate Home (former Carolina Hotel).
19. Chamber of Commerce.
20. Site of Shepheard’s Tavern; birthplace of Masonry.
21. Huguenot Church.
22. Ruins of Planters’ Hotel, including site of First Theatre.
23. Pirate Houses.
24. St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.
25. Grave of John Caldwell Calhoun.
26. Nicholas Trott’s House.
27. Colonial Powder Magazine.
28. Circular Congregational Church.
29. Site of Institute Hall in which Secession was signed.
30. Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery.
31. Charleston Library Society.
32. St. John Hotel.
33. Unitarian Church.
34. St. John’s Lutheran Church.
35. Convent of Our Lady of Mercy.
36. Crafts Public School.
37. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
38. Formal garden of Irving K. Heyward.
39. Site of St. Andrew’s Hall in which Secession was adopted.
40. John Rutledge House.
41. The Izard Houses.
42. James Louis Petigru House.
43. Customs House.
44. Zig-Zag Alley.
45. Catholic Orphanage.
46. Site of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
47. The “Sword Gates.”
48. John Edwards House.
49. The Old Exchange.
50. Carolina Savings Bank.
51. South Carolina National Bank.
52. People’s State Bank.
53. Hibernian Hall.
54. Timrod Hotel.
55. Quaker Graveyard.
56. John Stuart House.
57. Fireproof Building.

Prints and Plants of Old Gardens, by Kate Doggett Boggs.

A book for those who would like to produce a border, or a fence, or a complete garden and want an old design. The drawings and illustrations were taken from rare prints and books difficult to find and expensive to buy. The author gathered her data from American and English gardens of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. The appendix contains a list of thousands of plants. The botanical names were traced and arrangement into groups made by Dr. and Mrs. Bayard Hammond of the Botanical Department of Johns Hopkins University. 10 × 13 inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.

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Southern Antiques, by Paul H. Burroughs.

This book covers the field of furniture-making over a period of two hundred years, from 1620 to 1820, and is concerned with that part of the old South which comprised the original colonies of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. The text is arranged by sections according to the kinds of furniture illustrated and described. Profusely illustrated. 8½ × 11 inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.

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Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, edited by Susanne Williams Massie and Frances Archer Christian for the Garden Club of Virginia.

This book tells of more than one hundred and fifty homes and gardens in every part of the Old Dominion. The authors include H. J. Eckenrode, Lyon G. Tyler, Rosewell Page, Alexander Weddell, Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Arthur Kyle Davis, Robert A. Lancaster, Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy) and many others. 6¾ × 9½ inches. 130 full-page illustrations. $5.00.

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Thomas Jefferson: Architect and Builder, by I. T. Frary.

This is the first book published covering Jefferson’s complete work as an architect. The unusually fine photographs were made by the author and include exteriors, interiors, detail studies and landscapes, as well as reproductions of Jefferson’s original drawings. I. T. Frary, author, lecturer, teacher, is an authority on architecture. Covers stamped in gold. Introduction by Fiske Kimball. 8½ × 11 inches. 96 full-page illustrations. $5.00.

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In the Picturesque Shenandoah Valley, by Armistead C. Gordon.

The story of the great Valley of Virginia told as only Armistead Gordon could tell it—of its scenery, its streams and mountains, its many caverns, and better than all, its famous people. 6 × 9 inches. Maps and illustrations. $2.50.

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It is said that from the tops of the highest buildings in Charleston come under the eye more historic places than come under it from any other point in the United States. The book tells the history of those places. The Charles Town that was and the Charleston this is are brought before the reader. Names of eminent Carolinians pass in review and the greatness of the lustrous past is linked with the present.

In Charleston survive scars of wars and storms and fires that raged in the long ago. It has had part in Indian, Spanish and French wars. It has had bold adventure with pirates. It was conspicuous in the Revolution and in the War for Southern Independence.

The fame of Middleton Place, Magnolia, and Cypress gardens is world-wide. Annually thousands of people visit Charleston to walk about these wonderful gardens that are a living reminder of the beauty wrought before the American Revolution.

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Thomas Petigru Lesesne, author and editor, is a member of a family that has been distinguished in South Carolina since Charleston was a British outpost in a savage land.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Silently corrected a few typos.
  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.