Here’s a pretty little South Carolina church. But where is it? 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, “Classic Southern mansion,” showed the beautiful Greek Revival Chisolm-Alston House at 172 Tradd Street in Charleston in a photo available via the U.S. Library of Congress.
Congratulations to this week’s sleuths: Jim McMahon, Joe Mendelsohn, Legare Clement, Gwen McCurdy, Judy Hines and Delia A. Smith, all of Charleston; Don Clark of Hartsville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; Jay Altman of Columbia; and Peggy Kandies.
Clement is very familiar with the house, as he wrote: “As a child, I saw that house out of my bedroom window!”
Graf shared, “Alexander Hext Chisolm acquired this site near his thriving rice mill in 1829 and built a notable Greek Revival house on the site in the mid-1830s. Several experts attribute the design to Charles F. Reichardt, Prussian-trained architect of the Charleston Hotel, the Washington Racecourse Grandstand, and the facade of the guard house at Meeting and Broad Streets. William Algernon Alston, Jr., owner of five plantations in lower All Saints Parish in Georgetown County, bought the house as his town residence in 1855.”
Peel added, “The house is now owned by Carolyne Roehm, who purchased the property for $2.6 million in June 2012. While not currently for sale, the house has an estimated value on Zillow of just over $4.4 million.”
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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