MYSTERY PHOTO: This should look familiar

This building should look familiar to people in Charleston, but where and what is it?  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, “Lowcountry-style building might be tough to identify, was sent in by reader Frank Bouknight of Summerville.  And boy, was it tough. One person guessed it was a clubhouse. Another guessed something else. But only Cheryl Smithem of Summerville got it right, correctly identifying the building as being part of the Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary.

“I’ve seen this building all my life,” she wrote us.  She shared that the seminary “was founded and formed in 1876 by the Rev. Peter Fayssoux Stevens.  The purpose of the school was to train and educate freemen who were former slaves and sons of former slaves for the ministry of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the South.  Through the succession of many leaders, the school became formally charted as a seminary in 1939 and changed its name to the Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary.”

Good work Frank and Cheryl!  

• 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.