Tag: City Hall (Charleston SC)

80 Broad Street. Used as a Provost Guard House by Union during war.

Wikipedia says: The Charleston City Hall is a building designed by Gabriel Manigault. The city bought the building and began using it as Charleston’s City Hall in 1819, making it the second longest serving city hall in the United States (second only to New York City’s).

The site of City Hall was a beef market in 1739, but the market was destroyed in a fire in 1796, and the corner parcel was conveyed to the Charleston branch of the First Bank of the United States in 1800. The construction of the bank was overseen by Edward Magrath and Joseph Nicholsen (carpenters) and by Andrew Gordon (mason).