The district builds on a decades-long effort to preserve the site’s industrial roots while embracing a creative future.

If there’s a plant that deserves a place in every Charleston garden, it’s the Noisette rose. Created amid elaborate “pleasure grounds” in Ravenel at the start of the 19th century, it set off an ...

Ever since the voyagers on the sailing ship Carolina slipped up the Ashley River in 1670 and founded Charles Towne, the Holy City’s rivers have been its lifeblood. For more than 200 years, the ...

2. Henry’s Cheese Spread Many decades ago, long before Charleston’s restaurant scene exploded, a big night out involved Henry’s on Market Street, where white-jacketed waiters swooped in with trays of ...

Grady Hendrix is gruesome. Or at least his books are, if you consider severed limbs, murderous puppets, and a flesh-eating rat orgy gruesome. He’s also a conundrum: the polite Southern gentleman who ...

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s wrote, “You travel to search, and you come back home to find yourself there.” That sums up Dennis’s return to Charleston in 2008. Having studied another ...

A biomedical engineer might not be the most obvious choice to lead an international history museum, but Tonya Matthews has rarely pursued the obvious. Not in preschool, when she pestered her mother ...

David Warren may have discovered a unicorn in an old Charleston neighborhood west of the Ashley River. On a small bluff, less than a mile from Charles Towne Landing sits an almost one-acre lot with ...

On the serene waters of Mosquito Creek, located about an hour south of Charleston in the ACE Basin, a flat-bottomed boat picks its way along a line of floating cages. Pelicans and seagulls cluster ...

When Anne and Jon Liebergall bought a nearly 200-year-old house on Legare Street in 2014, they planned to renovate and move down from Connecticut in a few years, when their youngest daughter left for ...

A Welcoming Past Daisy’s Legacy Daisy Breaux Simonds was known for entertaining lavishly and hosting high-profile guests, including President Roosevelt when he visited Charleston for the West India ...

Growing up on James Island, Nicole Rubin, née Wilson, worked parttime at the Harris Teeter on East Bay Street. Passing the historic homes that decorate the eastern peninsula on her way to work, she ...