Trust for Architectural Easements Presents Online Tour of Historic Charleston, South Carolina
Summary
Across the street from the church, on the northeast corner of the intersection, Charleston City Hall was built between 1800 and 1804 in the Palladian style suggestive of the villas and townhouses designed by Andrea Palladio in Italy in the 16th century.A few blocks up Meeting Street is the Old City Market, constructed in 1841 in the Greek Revival style, and suggestive of the ancient temples on the Athenian Acropolis.### Washington, DC, September 22, 2011 --( PR.com )-- The Trust for Architectural Easements is proud to present an online tour of Historic Charleston, South Carolina.The palm trees swaying against its white-washed walls belie its quasi-tropical American location.Across the street from the church, on the northeast corner of the intersection, Charleston City Hall was built between 1800 and 1804 in the Palladian style suggestive of the villas and townhouses designed by Andrea Palladio in Italy in the 16th century.This building’s tripartite entrance façade – the central portion of which is marked by a rusticated basement and a giant order of double-storied columns – is also Palladian in inspiration.The last building to be constructed at this intersection – the city’s U. S. Post Office and Federal Courthouse – was not built until 1896.