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Property File |
Title |
360 Meeting Street (The Charleston Museum) |
Scope & Content |
Constructed 1979-80. Chrissman and Solomon, architects. A Boston architectural firm won the design competition to produce the plans for the new Charleston Museum in 1976. The monumental contemporary structure was intended to appear contextual but deliberately planned to lack historical references to the surrounding area. A planned mall, a series of four rectangles connected by glass corridors linking the new museum to its Joseph Manigault House, was never undertaken. The construction of this building, particularly in a neighborhood then lacking revitalization, was considered by the City Council and planners as a major first step toward rejuvenation of the area and greater access to the nation's oldest museum. File contains narrative history (by Jonathan Poston) from Vernacular Architecture of Charleston; newspaper articles; article from Preservation Progress (Nov. 1964); handwritten research notes (undated, unattributed); excerpts from a publication listing accessions in 1798. |
Subjects |
Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) Museum buildings--South Carolina--Charleston |
Search Terms |
Meeting Street |
Physical Description |
1 File Folder |
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Object ID # |
MEETING.360.1 |