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360 Meeting Street (The Charleston Museum) - ca. 1996
B&W photographs of 360 Meeting Street (The Charleston Museum; various views. Five photos in sleeve.
Record Type: Photo
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Charleston Museum (121 Rutledge Avenue) - 1908?
View of the Charleston Museum (a/k/a Thomson Auditorium) (121 Rutledge Avenue), street elevation. Rutledge Avenue is made of cobblestone; trolley tracks are visible. A man stands on the steps of the building and a horse-drawn wagon is parked in front on a walkway. A ladder is propped up against the building. Photo measures 9¾" x 7½"; matted to a total dimension of 14" x 11". "D.H. Bahr, Photographer" stamped on matte.
Record Type: Photo
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Charleston Museum [121 Rutledge Avenue] - early 1960s
Color photographic postcard of the Charleston Museum (f/k/a Thomson Auditorium) that was located at 121 Rutledge Avenue. Four teenage women stand on sidewalk at bus stop in front. Captioned (on back): "The oldest museum in the United States, having been established in 1773. It contains a fine colletion of arts, crafts, furniture, textiles and implements used in s.C. from early days. Open daily." Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers. ...
Record Type: Photo
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Plan, Landscape (Garden) - Cannon Park, 121 Rutledge Avenue [Sketch Plan for Pergola]
Title of drawing: Cannon Park, 121 Rutledge Avenue Date of drawing: 8/21/1896, 8/31/1896 Name of creator(s): Olmstead, Olmstead & Eliot, Architects Elevation of Lann Front of Pergola, Sketch Plan for Pergola. Address is handwritten.
Record Type: Archive
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Plan, Landscape (Garden) - Cannon Park Planting Plan
City of Charleston Park Commission Cannon Park Planting Plan. Created by Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot - Landscape Architects - Brookline, Mass. First figures in the beds designate the plant or the mixture of plants to be used in each space. Second figures show the number of individuals of each plant or mixture estimated to be required to fill each space. Existing trees shown by dots. Also includes list of 48 locations and the plants to be used.
Record Type: Archive
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Property File - 121 Rutledge Avenue (Cannon Park and Ruins of The Charleston Museum)
Established by 1880; some redevelopment ca. 1985. After the Bennett Mill Pond was filled, Mayor William Ashmead Courtenay was wise to retain Frederick Law Olmsted to design a park for this site. But before the park was completed, the city decided in May 1899 to build an auditorium here to serve as convention space, particularly for the United Confederate Veterans. A bequest from John Thompson to the city was used to finance the auditorium constru...
Record Type: Archive
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Property File - 360 Meeting Street (The Charleston Museum)
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 Hou...
Record Type: Archive
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Ruins of the Charleston Museum on Rutledge Avenue - 1981
Four color photographs (scans) showing the ruins of the old Charleston Museum on Rutledge Avenue after it burned down in 1981. (The columns were preserved as a focal point in Cannon Park.) Date embossed on original slide: November, 1981.
Record Type: Photo
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Thomson Autditorium, Confederate Veterans Reunion - ca. 1902
Photograph of the Thomson Auditorium (121 Rutledge Avenue) decorated for a Confederate's Veteran's Reunion, per sign on columns. Trolley tracks are visible on Rutledge Avenue, then a cobblestone street. Man in a top hat crosses the street walking toward the building; horse-drawn carriage parked by sidewalk; people standing on steps outside front door.
Record Type: Photo
