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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 an unparalleled collection of 18th and 19th-century architecture, including many distinctive Charleston "single houses".
The location of Washington Square once was the site of Corbett's Thatched Tavern. The city square was opened in 1818. [5] [6] Washington Square was shown on a plat from 1800. Along the east wall of the park is a monument to Gen. Pierre Beauregard, the Confederate general in charge of the city's defenses in 1862-1864. In 2004, the monument had ...
During the early 19th century, Charleston's landowners built and expanded their houses in town and along the Ashley River. While the Horlbeck brothers have received credit for "building" many houses and public spaces in downtown Charleston using the brick from their plantations, enslaved workers had made the bricks and others accomplished the ...
Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif; Ahmed Shah Durrani mausoleum, Kadahar; Tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni; Shah Do Shamira Mosque; Salang Pass; Paghman Gardens; Bala Hissar; Arg (Presidential Palace), Kabul; Pul e Khishti Mosque; Arch of Bost; Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Mosque; Kandahar International Airport; Shrine of Ali; Tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani Baba
Rainbow Row is the name for a series of thirteen colorful historic houses in Charleston, South Carolina. The houses are located north of Tradd St. and south of Elliott St. on East Bay Street, that is, 79 to 107 East Bay Street. The name Rainbow Row was coined after the pastel colors they were painted as they were restored in the 1930s and 1940s.
The mosque has a capacity of 200 men and 40 women and is located next to the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. [59] Masjid Vega Alta: Vega Alta: Puerto Rico: 1992 Largest mosque in Puerto Rico, with a capacity of 1,200 men and 120 women. [59] Masjid Montehiedra: San Juan: Puerto Rico: 2007 The mosque has a capacity of 400 men and ...
The house is a two-story, 52-foot (16 m) by 20-foot (6.1 m) structure with a gabled roof and stepped and curvilinear gable ends. An 18-foot (5.5 m) by 28-foot (8.5 m) service wing was added to the south side of the house in the 1930s (the wing was built in the same 18th-century style as the house).
The John Drayton House at 2 Ladson St. in downtown Charleston, South Carolina was built after 1746 by John Drayton, the builder of Drayton Hall, and shows his preference for the Georgian Palladian style. For many decades, the house was thought to have been begun in 1738 and completed in 1752.