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Photography Collection

View of the Charleston County Courthouse

Description

B&W reprint of a photograph of the view across Washington Square Park looking west, taken after the tornado of 1938.

Features the Charleston County Courthouse showing the two-story wing that was added in 1926 (behind the housekeeper's or jailer's house). At the right is the Timrod Hotel, demolished in the 1960s to make room for a County office building. (Caption on back of photo.)

Charleston Library Society photograph.

Item Details

Object ID: BROAD.084.028
Creator: Unattributed
Date: 1938
Subjects:
Charleston County Courthouse (Charleston, S.C.)