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Kiawah Homes is a housing complex located in the Wagener Terrace neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1942 as part of a federal housing program for World War II laborers and sold to the Charleston Housing Authority in 1954. Long before the Kiawah Homes were built, the property had been The Cottage Farm at least by 1805.
In 1968, ten buildings of housing were added to the west side of the existing project including 38 Hagood Ave. Mayor Lockwood announced that the City would stop developing housing projects after Gadsden Green because the area had reached its saturation point; more projects, he said, would injure the property owners of the city. [15]
National Association of Home Builders headquarters in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1942, NAHB is a federation of more than 700 state and local home builder associations (HBAs). About a third of the more than 140,000 NAHB members are home builders or remodelers. [2]
Historic Charleston Foundation has teamed up with some of the city’s best artists and designers to carefully transform the Aiken-Rhett House for the holidays.
The William Enston Home, located at 900 King St., Charleston, South Carolina, is a complex of many buildings all constructed in Romanesque Revival architecture, a rare style in Charleston. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Twenty-four cottages were constructed beginning in 1887 along with a memorial chapel at the center with a campanile style tower, and it was ...
It was the home of William Aiken, Jr., a governor of South Carolina, and before that the home of his father, the owner of South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, William Aiken. [5] Gov. William Aiken House. Frances Dill Rhett, whose husband was a direct descendant of Gov. William Rhett, donated the house to the Charleston Museum in 1975. [6]
The George Chisolm House is at 39 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Constructed about 1810, [1] in the Federal style, [2] for George Chisolm, a factor, [3] [4] the two-and-one-half story George Chisolm House is the first house to have been built upon the landfill project that formed Charleston, South Carolina's Battery. [5]
The Confederate Home is a retirement home located in an early 19th-century building at 60 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The building started as a double tenement in about 1800, built for master builder Gilbert Chalmers. From 1834 to 1867, it was operated as the Carolina Hotel by Angus Stewart. [1]