MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this bridge?

Here’s a South Carolina bridge with which you might not be familiar.  Where is it?  Is it named for anyone in particular? Send your best 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 March 1 photo, “Raised house,” was so tough that no one in Charleston could guess it.  But our two out-of-state super-sleuths, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, figured it out. (We give Mount Pleasant resident Chris Brooks a good college try for getting the general neighborhood correct!).

The photo shows an old single house on St. Philip Street near D’Allesandro’s Pizza that’s been raised up for renovation.  

Peel provided some insight: “Today’s mystery photo shows the ‘raising’ of a building located at 223 St. Philip St. in the Historic District of Charleston. Click here to see the last (Aug 2019) street view of this house from Google Maps, and what it looked like before the renovation work was started. As you can see from the red sign with a white cross posted on the front of the building, it was abandoned and considered unsafe for occupancy, even though there was a ‘For Lease” sign posted on it as well. 

“When ‘raising” a building in this fashion, the objective is to raise it up several feet and install a new foundation to protect the house from future floods. This is becoming an increasing common, albeit expensive, practice to preserve some of Charleston’s historic buildings.”

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.