The past is everywhere you look in Charleston – triumphs and tragedies, beauty and brutality, infused in art and architecture and etched in stone. We believe that every memory, every place, every story woven together is who we are. So, as a people and culture, we exist not apart from brick and mortar, marsh and mud, cobblestone and wrought iron, but together with – and within them. That’s part of what makes our historic properties so compelling and exciting. Not only are these spaces the perfect exhibition space for our fine and decorative art collections, they also reveal stories about our history, our culture, who we were – and who we are now.
The next phase of the Nathaniel Russell Kitchen House Project is now underway! The Foundation’s Board of Trustees committed $100,000 to kickstart this important project and raise awareness in the…
Read MoreWith Tropical Storm Debby making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 Hurricane and news of it “stalling out” over the Charleston area and dumping huge amounts of rain, I…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, our summer interns Madelyn Reber and Amanda Nestor completed an update to an interior plaster crack study at the Aiken-Rhett House. This study began in 2009…
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