Charleston II.

5-12-23 SHORT HILLS: I promised pix of Charleston after we were there, but I just remembered that I never posted anything. Here, at long last, are some pix from the old parts of Charleston, which are filled with gorgeous houses and parks. There are government buildings made of stone in Greek revival style.  The area around College of Charleston has lovely houses converted to dorms and lots of old live oaks dripping Spanish moss. One unusual style point has the main entrance to the house from the street, not in the center of the building, but on one end, and it opens onto the porch. The porches are often two stories with elaborate moldings and railings. The porch ceilings are painted blue. Why? So ghosts will think that the blue ceiling is open sky and will not hang around that house. If you want to know why that scares ghosts away, you'll have to ask one.

Beautiful old tree at CofC.

Horse drawn carriage tours are a frequent site, and they're frequently passed by cars.

A stately house [they're all stately] with the porch on front. The entrance door is still on the side of the front.

Door on the side of the front opening onto the porch.

Another one.

Here's a variation with a lot of porch--a good idea in a hot climate, especially before AC.

Street number.