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1. 213 Meeting Street - 1974

   B&W photograph of the front facade (east elevation) of 213 Meeting Street before the back of the building was completely demolished. Demolition debris can be seen through openings. Edge of 211 Meeting at left; edge of 215 Meeting at right. Dated July 1974 (written on back).

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2. Property File - 205-229 Meeting Street / Charleston Place

   Charleston Place, constructed 1984-86. John Carl Warnecke and Partners, architects. Beginning in Mayor Palmer Gaillard's administration in the early 1970s, plans were formulated to rejuvenate King Street. This effort accelerated by 1975 and led Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. and city planners to attempt to lure a major hotel or convention center to a block bounded by Meeting, Hasell, King, and Market Streets. Although the city's intent was the renewal...

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3. Property File - 363 King Street (Poppenheim Hardware Store)

   Constructed 1891-92; facade rehabilitated 1982. W.B.W. Howe, architect; J.D. Murphy, builder-contractor; Thomas H. Reynolds, mason. The son of an Episcopal bishop who designed the Drayton House at 25 East Battery and the William Enston Home complex at 900 King Street executed the plans for a new hardware store for the merchant Christopher P. Poppenheim. Called "an ornament to the street" in a headline for a story in the March 23, 1892, edition...

   Record Type: Archive