Author: Alan Brown

The Garden Street Theater is a remnant of a by-gone era. When it opened on January 14, 1918, patrons eager to view vaudeville acts and the latest silent movies paraded into a garden of hanging baskets, trellises, and caged...

The Unitarian Church in Charleston is the second oldest church on the city peninsula. In 1772, the Society of Dissenters decided that their building on meeting Street was not large enough to accommodate the church’s increasing...

Built in 1886, the building on 72 Queen Street that now houses one of Charleston’s most popular restaurants was owned by two spinster sisters, Elizabeth and Zoe Saint Amand. Both women were schoolteachers, but they had entirely...

A great deal of Charleston’s appeal likes in its splendid array of antebellum mansions. Before the Civil War, Charleston was the most prosperous city in the South, due in large part to the slave trade. In the late 18th and early...

In the 19th century, the Battery ws one of the most exclusive residential neighborhoods in Charleston. During the Civil War, however, the waterfront area was also one of the most embattled. Beginning in 1861, Federal forces...