This may be a pretty tough identification (who is it? And where is it?), so we’ll give you one hint: It’s in Charleston. 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, “This should look familiar,” looked familiar to people in Charleston. It was the roofline of the U.S. Custom House on East Bay Street. (It might have been easier if we had not cropped the photo to get rid of the cruise ship in the background!)
Congratulations to this week’s sleuths: Eric Hansel, Margaret Fabri, Catherine LaFond, Joe Mendelsohn, Stephen Yetman, Susan Highfield, Jim McMahan, Judy Hines and Kristina Wheeler, all of Charleston; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.
Segars added: “This week’s photo is Supervising Architect Edward Brickell White’s U. S. Custom House (it was not his design) in downtown Charleston. Construction began in 1853 and completed in 1879. Interesting building and history.”
Graf provided more context from Wikipedia: “By the 1960s, the Custom House was used by a number of federal agencies. local preservationists with the help of Representative Mendel Rivers worked to save the building.”
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.
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