Clemson Historic Preservation in Charleston

📢 Exciting Event Announcement! 🎉

🌟 Afro-Descendant Communities’ Southern Roots Music Road Trip: Connecting the Louisiana Easter Rock and Sea Island Ring Shout Sacred Traditions 🌟

Join us this June for a unique cultural experience as African American elders and young culture-keepers from Louisiana’s Easter Rock and Georgia’s Gullah Geechee Ring Shout traditions come together for the first time on one stage. Witness the powerful Black spiritual practices dating back to the antebellum era.

The Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble, a 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellow, will showcase their Easter Eve vigil ritual featuring West African and Christian elements. The Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters from Darien, Georgia, will demonstrate their internationally recognized ring shout tradition.

📅 Public Performance Schedule:

Monday, June 24, 2024, | 12:30 p.m.
📍 Whitney Plantation
5099 LA-18, Edgard, Louisiana
Capacity: 80 people

Tuesday, June 25, 2024, | 2 p.m.
📍 Taping of American Routes Live with host Nick Spitzer
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Wednesday, June 26, 2024, | 2 p.m.
📍 New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
916 N. Peters Street, New Orleans
*Free and open to the public*

Thursday, June 27, 2024, | 7 p.m.
📍 Central St. Matthew United Church of Christ
1333 Carrollton Avenue, Uptown New Orleans
*Located in the Fellowship Hall on the 2nd floor. Stairs and elevator are available.*

These cultural exchanges are brought to you by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, National Council for the Traditional Arts, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, and The Historic New Orleans Collection.

✨ All performances are free and open to the public! Don't miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to experience and celebrate these rich cultural traditions. ✨

Market Hall
Other Title: Old Market
188 Meeting Street
Charleston South Carolina (Charleston County)

Survey number: HABS SC-135
Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction
John McWilliams, photographer; 1990.
National Register of Historic Places - NPS Number 73001689

SIGNIFICANCE
Built in 1841, is the headhouse of the Charleston Public Market. The site, a reclaimed creek and marsh, was donated by the Pinckney family to the city, with the stipulation that the property revert to the family if used for any other purpose. The original building, constructed between 1788-1807, burned in 1838. The present Roman Revival style Market Hall, was designed by Edward Brickell White (1806-82), a civil engineer, architect, and surveyor from Charleston. The second floor contained a large assembly room, while the stalls at street level served as a meat market...

LEARN MORE
See the rest of the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documentation of the Charleston City Market in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection in The Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/sc0153/

Are YOU interested in learning more about preservation? 🏠 Spots are filling up in this year’s historic preservation summer institute! Click the link below to register and learn more about opportunities for preservation in our 4-day program to explore some of Charleston’s most iconic sites, and to learn more about work and careers in the preservation field! 📩

https://forms.gle/fxk6qXjpdeVU3JhA7

This week, the students in the Historic Preservation Summer Minor got to study paint analysis, starting with a talk with Kirsten Moffitt, Conservator & Materials Analyst at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Materials Analysis Lab. Afterwards, students went to the CDCC lab where they looked at mounted paint samples from Drayton Hall! 🎨

Clemson undergraduate history and architecture students in the inaugural class of the new Historic Preservation Summer Minor toured the Edmonston-Alston yesterday as an introduction to the spaces that they will be documenting throughout the summer. Next week, students will visit the house again with drawing materials and measuring tapes. Thank you for the tour , and excited for a great summer ahead at one of Charleston’s beautiful historic houses! 🤍

📆Do you have summer plans❓You could spend some of it with us at the inaugural Johns Island Preservation Field School! The first field school will be held May 22-June 9, 2024.

For more information, go to https://jifieldschool.org
Vernacular Architecture Forum , Mellon Foundation
Clemson Historic Preservation in Charleston , College of Charleston , College of Charleston Libraries , Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture , Claflin University , Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor National Heritage Area ,

Check out some familiar faces in the PBS special, The Craftspeople of Charleston! The special features our very own Professor Moby Marks. Also spot a program shoutout and some of our alumni!
Click the link in our bio to see the whole video!

🏛️ Dive into the rich tapestry of history with our Historic Preservation Summer Institute in Charleston! Calling all undergrads passionate about preserving and interpreting our cultural heritage. Explore firsthand the captivating work of historic preservationists while immersing yourself in Charleston's unique charm and history. Don't miss this opportunity to make a difference and be inspired! Check out the link in our bio for more details. 🌿

Are you an undergraduate student interested in historic preservation and the historic built environment!?🏠
Join us for our fourth annual Summer Institute in Historic Preservation! This Institute is a 3 and a half day program filled with tours, preservation projects, and the history of Charleston! July 28-Aug 1.
Click the link in bio for more information and registration.

We are so proud and excited to announce the 2024 recipients of the 2024 Kelly Brown Bulak ‘22 award! Through a generous gift made by the Bulak family to honor the memory of their daughter Kelly, an MSHP student, scholarship recipients will receive grants to support travel for their summer internships. Congratulations to Jocelyn and Hannah! 🥳

Today eight of our graduating students gave brief presentations at the South Carolina Historic Preservation Conference! We heard about the thesis work that we thought would be of particular interest to South Carolina professionals: communications to intumescent paint, rising sea levels and property values, to vice and rice. They did great!
We also connected with many alumni and heard from faculty member Craig Bennett on disaster preparation and recovery!

Last Saturday, our TAs attended the Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project Resource Fair. The event was all about connecting members of the Gullah Geechee community who are involved in various forms of preservation of their communities, to local partners and organizations that can provide different kinds of technical assistance. We talked about some of the programs’ previous projects and the types of work our students can assist with!

Today we had a special visit from The American Institute for Conservation and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation members in the Lowcountry community for disaster training!

What would a historic house do in the event of a hurricane or fire? How do we save the items safely? Today, the group workshopped what disaster scenarios would need, down to who would make sure the volunteers were cared for and what happens if the roof falls down? It was a collection of some of the BEST and brightest in the Lowcountry and we’re honored to use the Aiken-Rhett House in this session.

Participating members were from many historic sites and nonprofit organizations in Charleston including Clemson Historic Preservation in Charleston, Warren Lasch Conservation Center, Charleston Library Society, The South Carolina Historical Society and many more!

For our next thesis highlight, Chris Cone and his thesis entitled, “An Analysis of Identification Methods to Determine the Presence of Indigo Dye Within Historic Textiles”.
His study explored methods for testing for indigo dyes within historic textile samples within the collection of the
To test if indigoid dyes were present, the samples were immersed in a reducing solution with a corresponding chemical reaction, often a yellow colorant. Ethyl acetate was added to facilitate phase separation, where the layers would separate and result in a blue colorant signaling a positive identification for indigo or a clear result, proving the sample was not an indigoid dye.
His results found that six of the eight samples tested positive for indigo dye!

We’re excited to start a new series where we’ll be highlighting our second-years theses!
Chloe Martin’s thesis entitled “In Search of a Blind Tiger: a Cultural and Historic Landscape Analysis of Prohibition-era Charleston,” is a study of Blind Tigers, or illicit drinking establishments, in Charleston in 1913.
During this study, Chloe conducted research on 166 properties where these Blind Tigers were located and assessed whether or not the historic structures still exist. It was discovered that the Blind Tigers clustered around the County Dispensaries that sold state-distributed liquor. Also that only 33% of the Blind Tiger structures that existed in 1913 remain extant today.

Join us this Wednesday @ 6pm @ the Clemson Design Center here at the Cigar Factory for an exciting lecture from Christina Butler about British Occupied Charlestown, 1780-82.
We hope to see you there!

Check out the article in The State about Historic Structures Report and their exciting finds in the basement!

https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article286263880.html

Flintlock-style pistol found in basement of 1740s Charleston home, SC university says

Hey Alumni!!📣
Anyone in St. Augustine?
We’re headed your way for our class trip in April!
Message us here, or email Amalia [email protected]

Interested in preservation? Come check out the program and visit an ongoing preservation project site!
Join us on Friday, March 29, in-person or virtually.
To sign up, visit the link in our bio.

Last week, the 2023 participants from the John’s Island Field School had a chance to present on their experience at the International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference in Conway! Chelsea Gaillard, Eric Grant, Amalia Leifeste, Indira Lessington, Patricia Mallet, Jon Marcoux, Georgette Mayo, Ernest Parks, and Brittney Washington were part of a panel speaking on the history of Johns Island’s broad context of Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era history, and specifically Moving Star Hall and the Progressive Club. The field school is funded by a generous Mellon Foundation grant through the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Join us in congratulating to our very own MSHP students Shawnya Peterson & Paige Regna for receiving the Bruce MacDougal Advocacy Scholarship from Preservation Action. Paige & Shawnya will be traveling to Washington DC to attend National Historic Preservation Week, where they’ll participate in congressional office visits and conference meetings to promote federal preservation legislation!

You never know what you’ll find when in an 18th century basement in Charleston! The Historic Structures Report class is continuing their investigation of 12 Tradd Street. This took them down into the basement, which requires a 9ft drop down into the historic cistern. They found evidence of the tinsmith shop that once occupied the building in the 19th and early 20th century. They also found bottles, tiles, shingles…. and a very rusted 18th to 19th century firearm!

Second-years in Site Interpretation & Management took a trip to Savannah, Georgia yesterday led by Professor Laurel Bartlett. They visited the Owens-Thomas House and the Mercer-Williams House to understand different approaches house museum interpretation. They also visited the exhibits at the JW Marriott, which is an adaptively reused power plant rehabilitated using historic tax credits!

Join us here at the Cigar Factory on April 10 for an exciting lecture on British Occupied Charlestown, 1780-1782 hosted by the Powder Magazine!

Yesterday the second-years had their last thesis progress updates. They shared how their theses had developed, preliminary findings, and where they were in the writing process. Here are their topics!

Preservation isn’t just about the built environment, but also the people that make a place significant. As part of their Twelve Mile School project in Pickens, SC, Preservation Studio documented the oral histories of former students of the school. The former students, who attended the school in the 1940s and 1950s, were excited to share their memories and reconnect with old classmates.

Just one more week until the priority application deadline to apply for the Master of Science in Historic Preservation Program!
Click the link in our bio for more information about the program and how to apply.

Cultural & Historical Landscapes visited Edisto Island and the Hutchinson House part of the . The visit emphasized that while the preservation of the built environment is vital, the preservation of the surrounding landscapes are indispensable and the landscapes themselves are often just as innately significant. Edisto Island Open Land Trust