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The Garden Gate - 14 Legare Street
Charleston, South Carolina
Etching on paper
by Charleston Renaissance artist
Alfred Hutty
(1877-1954)
For more of his work see
A skip down my favorite street in the country, Legare Street. Pronounced "Le-GREE", it is located on the lower peninsula of Charleston, South Carolina. Stretching from Broad Street to South Battery...I took a leisurely stroll down my favorite section, south of Tradd Street, over the weekend. A canopy of palmetto and live oaks, shade historic homes and serene gardens.
View from corner of Legare and Tradd
The Sword Gate house
Appropriately named for the iron gates at its Legare entrance.
An important property, now for sale here
Skipping along...
A stone facade adorned with ironwork and creeping fig.
The Simmons-Edwards house...more commonly known as the Pineapple Gates House
Its name referring to the gate's finials, resembling Italian pinecones...called pineapples by locals
The fence posts featured in Alfred Hutty's etching. Defining the crushed oyster shell drive and accompanying garden to the right.
Across the street, the double piazza of the William Gatewood house.
Continuing down the street
View of Legare, looking back toward Tradd Street. Until my next visit.
A friend suggested perhaps we could, along with our two other girlfriends, go into together on one of these grand mansions for our retirement. Living together, "we could share expenses on caregivers" and such. Brilliant....four little old ladies, one big house.
If it doesn't work out girls...please just scatter my ashes in front of the William Gatewood house. More on that in my next post.
13 comments:
I certainly see why it's a favorite for "skipping"..... that creeping fig and those gardens...... yes, please!!!! I think your girlfriends know what they are talking about.... can I pitch in?
Beautiful pictures! SB
I need to spend some time with these photographs! Working on the retirement home logistics,
XO
MK
Thanks for the skip down this delightful street, Jennifer. The ironwork is just incredible. Nothing like that here in my neck of the woods. Your idea for a grand mansion retirement sounds perfect - like a chicer version of The Golden Girls! XO
Brilliant! We can finance our retirement mansion with a reality show...the Southern Golden Girls. Move over Honey Boo Boo
Otherwise, my share would only allow me to live in the basement. Crissy, you can live upstairs ha
Can I come visit you old ladies in your mansion? I'll bring you cakes and biscuits, and we can have tea. Beautiful, Jennifer. Adding to Pinterest now.
Loi.....bring cake and margaritas
So beautiful Jennifer!!! Thanks for this gorgeous tour. Great retirement plan! :)
What a lovely stroll you shared with us. thank you.
love these photos!
thanks ladies
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