Charleston County Courthouse (84 Broad Street)

Description

Three B&W photographs of the Charleston County Courthouse:

a: Granite frontispiece, east elevation, Edward Viett, sculptor, 1883. As part of the reorientation plan of the Courthouse, the east doorway was made the primary entrance and a new granite frontispiece added to accentuate its importance. Ground-floor rustication was added at the same time.

b: The removal of stucco from the lower stories of the Courthouse revealed the position of the original brick jack arches of the colonial statehouse. The decorative rubbed and gauged bricks forming the arch over a ground-floor window on the east wall remained exposed for a decade before the entire building was stuccoed in the 1760s. The statehouse windows were slightly higher and between 4 and 8 inches to one side of the present 1792 openings.

c: Remains of lightning conductor and foundations of rear porch.

Photographs and descriptions by Willie Graham, dated September, 1993.