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 Charleston County Courthouse - Charleston, South Carolina Posted by:  iconions
N 32° 46.591 W 079° 55.878
17S E 600086 N 3627017
The Charleston County Courthouse is a three-story white stone Neoclassical building located at 84 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM12GAJ
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2020
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My Commentary:
Broad and Meeting Streets has to be one of the most interesting intersections anywhere. Called the "Four Corners of Law" - City Hall, County Courthouse (at one time the Statehouse stood here, Federal Courthouse, and God's Law with Saint Michael's Episcopal Church on the four corners of the intersection. This building was created by James Hoban, the same man who designed the White House in Washington D.C..
73. The COUNTY COURTHOUSE, NW. corner of Meeting and Broad Sts., was designed by Judge William Drayton and built about 1800 on the site of the State House, which was burned in 1788. In the offices of the probate judge and clerk of court are records from the days of the Lords Proprietors.
- South Carolina : a guide to the Palmetto state, 1941, pg. 211
Charleston County Courthouse (1790–92) is a Neoclassical building in Charleston, South Carolina, designed by Irish architect James Hoban. It was a likely model for Hoban's most famous building, the U.S. White House, and both buildings are modeled after Leinster House, the current seat of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.
President George Washington visited Charleston on his Southern Tour in May 1791, may have met with Hoban, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (the temporary national capital) in June 1792. The following month, Hoban was named the winner of the design competition for the presidential mansion in Washington, D.C. He later altered his design under Washington's influence.
In 1883–1884, the courthouse underwent a large renovation performed by Kerrigan & Grant.
The Courthouse itself is still in use, located in the historic district near the park at Washington Square. It was built on the site of and incorporated the ruins of the South Carolina Statehouse (1753, burned 1788), the capitol building for the Colony of South Carolina under British Rule.[3] Hoban also designed a new statehouse building nearby, which was burned down during the Civil War.
- Charleston County Courthouse Wikipedia Page
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