Archival Photos of Disasters in Charleston
All photos credit HABS Photo by Jack E. Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service.
The eye of Hurricane Hugo came ashore directly over Charleston, S.C., on Sept. 21, 1989, leaving a path of destruction diagonally across the state. Many properties in Charleston’s Old & Historic District were damaged or destroyed.
Damage within Charleston’s commercial corridors.
Preservation volunteers survey a house destroyed on Rutledge Avenue in the Harleston Village neighborhood.
The Carrington-Carr House, c. 1890, an example of Charleston’s Victorian architecture, stands a block from historic High Battery.
A view of Vanderhorst Street in the Radcliffeborough of Charleston.
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