National Historic Landmark-Governor Stephen Hopkins House

National Historic Landmark-Governor Stephen Hopkins House

The exterior and interior woodwork, fireplaces, and trim are relatively intact in this house acquired in 1742 by Hopkins, Royal Governor of Rhode Island (1755-57), later a member of both Continental Congresses, and a ...

National Historic Landmark-First Baptist Meetinghouse

National Historic Landmark- First Baptist Meetinghouse

Erected 1774-75, this is an architecturally and historically notable public building. Its origins date to the establishment of the first Baptist organization in America by Roger Williams in 1638.

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National Historic Landmark-Crescent Park Looff Carousel

National Historic Landmark- Crescent Park Looff Carousel

Built about 1895--most of the figures date from 1905 to 1910--this large carousel is the earliest, most elaborate, and probably best preserved of the handful remaining of more than 100 carousels built by Charles ...

National Historic Landmark-St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Erected 1767-1769, this Georgian-style brick church is distinguished by a high gambrel roof with Jacobean gables. Both the exterior and interior appear to be original.

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National Historic Landmark-St. Philip's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark- St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Charleston)

Built in 1836 (spire completed in 1850), this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition.

Three Tuscan pedimented porticoes contribute to this design to make a building ...

National Historic Landmark-Saint Michael's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark- Saint Michael's Episcopal Church

Completed in 1761, this is an ecclesiastical architectural monument of the colonial period.

A two story Roman Doric open portico, the first such portico built on a Georgian church, dominates the facade.

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National Historic Landmark-Robert William Roper House

National Historic Landmark- Robert William Roper House

This brick residence of grandiose scale and monumental features is in many ways one of the most splendid houses of its period.

Its giant-order Ionic pentastyle portico is unusual among Greek Revival houses in ...

National Historic Landmark-Joseph H. Rainey House

National Historic Landmark- Joseph Hayne Rainey House

Joseph Hayne Rainey (1832-1887), the first Black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1870-79), served longer than any of his Black contemporaries.

The election of Rainey and of Hiram R. ...

National Historic Landmark-Powder Magazine

National Historic Landmark- Powder Magazine

The Powder Magazine is a visible reminder of the era of the Lord Proprietors and their founding government of the Carolinas; of the fortifications which protected the city and made Charleston one of the three fortified ...

National Historic Landmark-Pompion Hill Chapel

National Historic Landmark- Pompion Hill Chapel

A miniature Georgian masterpiece. A fine, virtually unaltered example of a South Carolina back parish church. Interior woodwork and nearly all furnishings are original.

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