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Rainbow Row is the name for a series of thirteen colorful historic houses in Charleston, South Carolina. The houses are located north of Tradd St. and south of Elliott St. on East Bay Street, that is, 79 to 107 East Bay Street. The name Rainbow Row was coined after the pastel colors they were painted as they were restored in the 1930s and 1940s.
September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
The city’s Rainbow Row houses date back to the 1700s. They originally fronted the Cooper River. Most of the buildings had no interior stairs limiting access between the first and second floorsto exterior stairs in the back yards. A 1778 fire destroyed much of the neighborhood leaving only these houses on East Bay Street.
"Painted Ladies" near Alamo Square, San Francisco, California. In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.
The very first rainbow pride flag was designed and hand made by Baker and a group of volunteers for the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. After the parade — and months later, after the ...
The downtown Charleston waterfront on the Battery. Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina.The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers.
Though statewide row offices don't generate the buzz of a presidential or gubernatorial race, time and again they've served as proving grounds. What history tells us about Pa. row offices, and why ...
Here’s the inside story of Rainbow Kitten Surprise, a seriously big band — despite its un-serious name. Oral history: How Rainbow Kitten Surprise went from playing App State dorms to NC arenas ...