MYSTERY PHOTO: Lowcountry-style building might be tough to identify

A reader sent in this red-roofed Lowcountry-style house, which makes sense because it’s located in the Lowcountry.  But what and where is it? Hope this one isn’t too hard. Send your guess to:  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our previous mystery, “It’s not a resort,” sparked some interesting guesses, such as a golf clubhouse on Kiawah and a visitors’ center in Berkeley County.  But the image was of the main laboratory building at the Baruch Institute in Georgetown County, a location identified by only three eagle-eyed readers:  Cheryl Smithem of Summerville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant. Congrats!

Graf provided this context via baruch.sc.edu:  “The main laboratory building (21,645 sq ft) comprises research laboratories, a computer center, seminar room, conference-dining room, archived-sample room, classroom, site library, teaching lab, walk-in refrigerators and freezers, large screened work areas, and technical and administrative support offices.  Tapped seawater is available in the research laboratories. Internet and a video teleconferencing system provide for interaction with researchers in Columbia or other locations and access additional research resources. Analytical equipment includes inorganic and carbon analyzers, spectrophometers, high quality light microscopes, and a scintillation counter. Ground-based LIDAR, infrared and multispectral cameras, kite-balloon, or other field-based equipment are also available.  A wing of the main building houses the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve which provides an additional classrooms, teaching laboratories, computer labs, and offices in support of educational programming and research.”

Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.