Drayton Hall

Love is...
a tour through Drayton Hall, a mid-1700s (plantation) house on the Ashley River in Charleston, SC. I enjoyed my fourth tour last weekend.
A photocompilation of my favorite moments:

Beginning 10 BLOCK West Jones

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This block is, essentially, three great buildings centered within the block, asphaldt lots on both corners.

The Row Shifts

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The street wall shifts at the lot lines on increments related to the basic lot size of 60'. Neat.

Old-Time Duo

Happy One-Year Anniversary to my favorite Old-Time Duo,

Samuel & Afton.

HABS drawings for Remshart Row

REMSHART ROW within the 100 Block West Jones Street

These documentary drawings were made by the federal project Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in the 1960s, as Preservation was getting a real foothold in Savannah. The full drawing set of the William Remshart Row, and many other Savannah buildings, can be found at: http://memory.loc.gov/

Thank you, Mr. Chenoweth, for the reminder.

A few photos taken at the time of HABS documentation, 1962, reveal the state of decay which characterized much of Savannah's architectural fabric, mid-century. And, in 2009, the state of renovation and rehabitation.

100 BLOCK West Jones Street

(north side)

I would like to take you to the Cemetery.

Colonial Park Cemetery was the second burial ground in the city, from 1750-1853. Legend holds that Union soldiers dug into the crypts and camped here in the cold winter of 1864-5 when General Sherman occupied the city. According to the Tour Guide Study Manual, "For amusement the soldiers carefully altered some of the tombstones to show that people died before they were born." Lots of famous early statesmen and noteable settlers are buried here. I am drawn to the back wall, where the stones that have fallen from their bases are mounted, held by old iron grips. The old empty jail cell vents open toward the cemetery from the opposite side of this wall.