Charleston Tour Guide Test Questions
with Certified Answers
When were most Freedman's cottages built? - Answer-After Civil War as rental units.
Name Early Colonial buildings and what characterized them. - Answer-Low to ground
with English building traditions. 1670-1740
Pink House - 17 Chalmers. 1712
Powder Magazine - 79 Cumberland. 1713
Col. William Rhett House - 45 Hasell. 1712
Thomas Rose House - 59 Church. 1735
John LIning House - 106 Broad. 1715
Buildings of Georgian period. - Answer-1700-1790. Proportion, symmetry, and balance.
St Michael's - 80 Meeting. 1752-61
Old Exchange - 122 East Bay. 1767-71
Miles Brewton house - 27 King. 1769
Buildings of Federal Period. - Answer-1790-1820. Also known as Neoclassical or
Adamesque. Classically inspired, but details lighter and more attenuated. Typified by
symmetrical facade with semicicular or elliptical fanlights over front door and sidelights.
Details include urns, garlands, anthemion (honeysuckle), medallions.
City Hall - 80 Broad. 1800-1804. Gabriel Manigault.
Joseph Manigault House - 350 Meeting. 1803. Gabriel Manigault.
SC Society Hall - 72 Meeting. 1803-04. Gabriel Manigault.
Nat Russell House - 51 Meeting. 1803-05.
2nd Pres - 342 Meeting. 1811. John & James Gordon.
Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul - 1811-16. John & James Gordon.
Buildings of Classical Revival - Answer-1820-1875. Response to emerging democratic
ideals. Early Greek Revival buildings rectangular with monumental Ionic columns and
full pediment across front. Later combined with Roman and Tuscan. Pure Greek Revival
is rare, and combination of Greek and Roman details fall into Classical Revival.
1st Baptist - 61-62 Church. 1819-22. Robert Mills.
Fireproof Building. 100 Meeting. 1822-27. Robert Mills.
Hibernian Hall. 105 Meeting. 1839-41. Thomas Walter.
Beth Elohim. 90 Hasell. 1840-31. Cyrus Wagner
Robert William Roper House - 9 E Battery. 1838-39. Charles Reichardt.
Market Hall. 188 Meeting. 1840-41. EB White.
Centenary Baptist - 60 Wentworth. 1841-42. EB White.
St. Johannes Lutheran - 48 Hasell. 1842. EB White.
Trinity Methodist - 275 Meeting. 1848-50.
,Buildings of Gothic Revival - Answer-Inspired by European castles and churches.
Popular in 19th century. Pointed arches, tracery, steeply pitched roof, clustered
columns, crenellation. Most in Chas are churches or insitutional buildings. Invention of
scrolls saw later makde it possible to imitate carved stone in wood... called Carpenter
Gothic... some residential examples built in Victorian period.
Old Marine Hospital - 20 Franklin. 1831-34.
Hugenot Church - 140 Church. 1844-45. EB White.
Aiken-Rhett House slave quarters - 48 Elizabeth. 1830s.
Grace Episcopal - 100 Wentworth. 1847-48. EB White.
George Washington Cooper House - 13 Franklin. 1850. Carpenter Gothic.
Italianate Buildings - Answer-1850-1885. Italian country villas inspired. Popular second
half of 19th century for residential and commercial. Tower elements, overhanging roof
with elaborate brackets under eaves, round headed and arched windows and doors,
balustrades along rooflines and balconies.
John Ashe House - 26 Battery. 1843. Edward Jones.
Robertson-Pickens House - 34 Smith. 1855
SG Courtenay Building - 11 Broad. 1856. EB White.
Calhoun Mantion - 16 Meeting. 1879. William Russell.
Victorian Buildings. - Answer-1860-1900s. Several styles: Second Empire, Queen Anne,
Eastlake, Richardsonian Romanesque. Asymmetrical floor plans, turrets, towers, lacy
wood trim (gingerbread), steeply pitched amnsard roof, decorative and patterned roof
shingles.
Francis Silas Rogers Mansion - 149 Wentworth. 1857-87. Daniel Wayne. 2nd Empire
Wilson-Sottile House - 11 College. 1891. SW Foulk. Queen Anne.
Carrington-Carr House - 2 Meeting. 1890-92. Queen Anne.
Charles Drayton House - 25 East Battery. 1883-38. Eastlake
Art Deco Buildings - Answer-1920-1940. mostly commercial. walls hae smooth finish.
Emphasis on vertical elements. Geometric patterns, stylized figures, materials like terra
cotta, mirrors, etched glass.
Kress Building. 281 King. 1937-39.
Riveria Theater. 227 King. 1937-39.
Martschink Building - 26 Cumberland.
Chase Furniture - 414 King. 1945. Augustus Constantine.
20th Century Buildings - Answer-Colonial Revival 1880-95 found on Murray Blvd and
south of Tradd where about 50 acres of marsh filled.
Beaux-Arts Classicism 1880-1930 for grandly scaled public buildings.
Craftsman. 1905-1930 for smaller scale residential... low-pitched gables with
overhanging eaves and exposed rafters... upper peninsula including Hampton Park
Terrace.
Gibbes Museum - 135 Meeting. 1905. Frank Milburn. Beaux Arts.
C. Bissell Jenkins House - 52 Murray. 1913. Colonial Revival.
Garden theater - 371 King. 1917-18. Beaux Arts.
,Halasey House - 66 Barre. 1910. Craftsman.
Gabriel Manigault buildings - Answer-City Hall (Bank of US) 80 Broad - 1800-04
Joseph Manigault House - 350 Meeting - 1803
SC Society Hall - 72 Meeting - 1803-04
James & John Gordon Buildings - Answer-2nd Presbyterian - 342 Meeting - 1811
Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul - 126 Coming. 1811-16
Robert Mills Buildings - Answer-1st Baptist - 61-63 Church. 1819-22.
Fireproof Building - 100 Meeting. 1822-27.
Old Marine Hospital - 20 Franklin. 1831-34.
Name years that hurricane hit. - Answer-1698, 1699, twice in 1752 (2 weeks apart),
1813, 1822, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1940, 1959 (Gracie), 1989 (Hugo)
Name thwarted 1822 slave revolt. - Answer-Denmark Vesey
Date that Reformed Society of Israelites was formed. - Answer-November 21, 1824.
First US VP to resign. - Answer-John C. Calhoun under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun also
VP under John Adams in 1824.
Largest sea island cotton crop and second largest rice crop both in what year? -
Answer-1828
Nullification Controversey was in response to what? - Answer-1828 and 1832 tariffs.
Longest railway in the world (at time) was completed in what year? - Answer-1832.
How long was railway and where did it go? - Answer-136 miles from Charleston to
Hamburg.
What happend to St. Philip's in 1835? - Answer-Destroyed by fire.
how many acres did 1838 fire cover and how many building damaged? - Answer-144
acres. almost 1,000 buildings easteward from King St. to Ansonborough.
First municipal college and year city funded it. - Answer-College of Charleston. 1839.
What was built as result of Denmark Vesey revolt? - Answer-SC Arsensal.
What year was Citadel established and where? - Answer-1842. On grounds of SC
Arsenal.
Date that Ordinance of Secession was signed? - Answer-December 20, 1860.
, Where was Ordinance of Secesssion signed? - Answer-Insitute Hall.
what and when started Civil War? - Answer-Firing on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861.
When was worst fire? Where? - Answer-December 11, 1861. Diagnoal path from
Cooper to Ashley rivers.
Who founded first Reformed Jewish congregations? - Answer-Members of K.K. Beth
Elohim
What Did Robert Smalls do? What was the date? - Answer-On May 13, 1862, he seized
Confederate ship Planter and along with 12 other slaves delivered it to Union quadron
blockading the harbor.
Who led 54th Mass? - Answer-Col. Robert Gould.
What did 54th Mass do, and what was date? - Answer-Led assault on Battery Wagner
in 1863.
When did Union bombardment of Charleston begin? - Answer-August 1863.
How long did Ubion bombardment last? - Answer-18 months
Year that Jeff Davis visited Charleston. Where did he stay? - Answer-1863. Stayed at
Gov. William Aiken Jr's house at 48 Elizabeth St.
What did Hunley do and when? - Answer-Sank Houstatonic on February 17, 1864.
How many days did union seige last? - Answer-545 days
Month and year that Union occupation started? - Answer-February 1865
What booming industry started in 1867? - Answer-Phosphate
what mayor expands parks and other public services and when? - Answer-William
Ashmead Courenay in 1879
When did big earthquake happen? - Answer-1886.
How many died in earthquake? - Answer-almost 100.
What happened in Hamton Park in 1902? - Answer-Interstate and West Indian Expo.
What month and year did hurricane wipe out last of rice industry? - Answer-August,
1911
