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Pond with heron statues. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (464 acres, 187.77 hectares) is a historic house with gardens located on the Ashley River at 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It is one of the oldest plantations in the South, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Gibbes Museum of Art, formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, is an art museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905. The Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works ...
Charleston temperatures tend to stay in the 50s and 60s in December, letting visitors better enjoy outdoor festivities such as the Holiday Festival of Lights, the national publication wrote.
October 9, 1960. The Governor John Rutledge House is a historic house at 116 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Completed in 1763 by an unknown architect, it was the home of Founding Father John Rutledge, a Governor of South Carolina and a signer of the United States Constitution. [ 3 ] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in ...
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January 30, 1970. July 16, 1978. August 2, 1984. Designated NHLD. October 9, 1960 [3] The Charleston Historic District, alternatively known as Charleston Old and Historic District, is a National Historic Landmark District in Charleston, South Carolina. [2][4] The district, which covers most of the historic peninsular heart of the city, contains ...
The first St. Philip's Church, a wooden building, was built between 1680 and 1681 at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets on the present day site of St. Michael's Episcopal Church. It was damaged in a hurricane in 1710 and a new St. Phillip's Church was begun a few blocks away on Church Street. After being delayed it was finished in 1723.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptistis the mother churchof the Roman CatholicDiocese of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina. Designed by Brooklyn architect Patrick Keely in the Gothic Revival style, it opened in 1907. The Most Reverend Jacques E. Fabre, the fourteenth Bishop of Charleston, was ordained and installed on May 13, 2022.