Charleston

Charleston is city on a peninsula and at the tip of the peninsula are gorgeous majestic homes. Typically, they are long and narrow houses (designed to capture the summer breezes) with entrances on the narrow side of the house and huge balconies along the side of the much larger side of the house. This is the house closest to the harbour facing Fort Sumter (where the Civil War started). This house is now divided into 3 condos.

The same house from the narrow street front (see the front entrance in the lower right). This type of house is called a "single house" because it is only one room wide.

The "simple" house next door, narrow on the street side and very deep from the street, is still owned by one family.

While historic Charleston didn't have day care, modern Charleston does. The children get fresh air 6 at a time.

This single house has a flowering Winter Cassia tree just inside the wrought iron gate.

 

A close up of the yellow Winter Cassia blossom.

The streets "south of Broad" are lined with hundreds of stately mansions, all narrow at the street and deep from the street.

Paul is biking along one of the long deep side streets that run between the main residential streets.

John C. Calhoun occupied every major political office in the United States except President. His estate is in the middle of the historic district. 

Tourists in a horse-pulled buggy view the Calhoun house. There is a huge rotunda in the middle of the house in the distance. Sandra waited minutes to allow the horse to relieve himself before she took this picture. How did we know it was a "he"? Silly question!

Just like Savannah, historic Charleston is known for its wrought iron decoration of the gardens and the houses.

The historic area of Charleston is bounded by Broad Street. North of Broad is mainly commercial. Slightly North of Broad is the name of the restaurant at which we ate (on Jane's recommendation).