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The Charleston Museum is a museum located in the Wraggborough neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1773, it is the oldest museum in the United States. [1] Its collection includes historic artifacts, natural history, decorative arts and two historic Charleston houses. It replaced the Old Charleston Museum that burned down ...
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The Heyward-Washington House is a historic house museum at 87 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Built in 1772, it was home to Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and was where George Washington stayed during his 1791 visit to the city. It is now owned and operated by the Charleston Museum ...
After closing in the early 21st century for an extensive two-year, $13.5 million renovation, the museum reopened to the public on May 28, 2016. In renovating the museum, the development teams used the original blueprints, discovered in the City of Charleston archives in 2008, to return the building to its 1905 Beaux Arts style layout. The first ...
Simons would also serve on the boards of many of Charleston’s civic and cultural institutions, including the boards of the College of Charleston, the Charleston Museum, the Charleston Library Society, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, and the Poetry Society of Charleston. The Albert Simons Center for the Arts at the College of Charleston
The Joseph Manigault House is a historic house museum in Charleston, South Carolina that is owned and operated by the Charleston Museum.Built in 1803, it was designed by Gabriel Manigault to be the home of his brother, and is nationally significant as a well-executed and preserved example of Adam style architecture.
Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association; Hamer, Fritz P. (2005). Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard, and World War II. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1540203618. Hart, Emma (2015). Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World (Reprint ed.). Columbia, SC ...
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. Walter Edgar (1992). "A South Carolina Chronology, 1890–1991". South Carolina in the Modern Age. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-126-6. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30