Charleston County Courthouse through time

View in Charleston, South Carolina 1863 This 1863 photograph documents a street scene in Charleston, South Carolina, captured during the Civil War years when the city endured a prolonged Union blockade and siege as one of the Confederacy's key ports.

St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C 1863 St. Michael's Church, one of Charleston, South Carolina's oldest Anglican congregations, is shown in this 1863 photograph taken as the city withstood Union bombardment during the Civil War.

EU: The Charleston Hotel, Charleston, S.C. (1865) 1865 The Charleston Hotel, a well-known nineteenth-century hostelry in Charleston, South Carolina, pictured in 1865. That year marked the end of the Civil War and the fall of Confederate control over the port city.

Aerial View, Looking Northwest Along Market Street, Charleston, SC 1995 An aerial photograph from 1995 looks northwest along Market Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The street runs through the city's historic district, once the site of the old City Market, toward the Cooper River waterfront.

Charleston, SC, City Hall 2012 Charleston City Hall in South Carolina, photographed in 2012. Completed in 1801 and originally built as a bank, the building has served as the seat of city government since 1818 and faces the historic Four Corners of Law.

Aerial View, Looking Northwest Along Market Street, Charleston, SC - cropped 2012 An aerial view looking northwest along Market Street in Charleston, South Carolina, photographed in 2012. Market Street runs through the city's historic district, home to the well-known City Market that has operated since the early 19th century.

Charleston County Courthouse 2013 The Charleston County Courthouse, an eighteenth-century building that once served as South Carolina's state house before the capital moved to Columbia, stands at Charleston's historic Four Corners of Law intersection.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church - Charleston, South Carolina 01 2015 Rows of wooden box pews and a brass chandelier fill the nave of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, with a stained-glass window visible at the chancel, 2015.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church - Charleston, South Carolina 03 2015 The chancel of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, features a stained-glass window of the archangel Michael flanked by carved inscriptions of scripture, photographed in 2015.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church - Charleston, South Carolina 02 2015 St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, completed in 1761, is counted among the city's oldest surviving church buildings. This image dates from 2015.

Charleston, SC, USA 2016 Charleston, South Carolina in 2016, within the city's well-preserved historic core, founded by English colonists in 1670.

Charleston, SC, USA 2016 Another 2016 view of Charleston, South Carolina, a port city founded in 1670 and known for its historic architecture.

Charleston, SC, USA 2016 A 2016 photograph of Charleston, South Carolina, showing part of the city's historic streetscape in a district settled in the 17th century.

Charleston, SC, USA 2016 Charleston, South Carolina, captured in 2016, in the city's old town near Charleston Harbor, one of the busiest ports of the American colonial era.

Charleston, United States (Unsplash lNrWxFfIG6Y) 2017 A 2017 photograph of Charleston, South Carolina, a port city founded in 1670 whose historic peninsula is known for preserved colonial and antebellum architecture. Charleston's harbor has shaped the city's economy and layout since its earliest settlement.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The Charleston County Courthouse, standing at the intersection historically known as the Four Corners of Law, is shown in this 2019 photograph of Charleston, South Carolina.

Broad Street, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Broad Street runs through Charleston's French Quarter, home to the historic Four Corners of Law where church, state, city, and federal buildings meet, in this 2019 photograph.

Broad Street, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This 2019 photograph shows another stretch of Broad Street in Charleston's French Quarter, part of the city's National Historic Landmark district in South Carolina.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 A further view of the Charleston County Courthouse in the city's French Quarter, photographed in 2019 near the historic Four Corners of Law.

128 Tradd - dependency 2019 This building on Tradd Street, one of Charleston's oldest residential streets, is a dependency, a detached outbuilding such as a kitchen or carriage house, typical of the city's historic residential properties.

83 Meeting - Meeting Street facade 2019 This is the Meeting Street facade of a building on Charleston's Meeting Street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the city's historic French Quarter.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston City Hall stands on the northeast corner of the Four Corners of Law, at Meeting and Broad Streets, and was built in the Adamesque style between 1800 and 1804.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This building served as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Charleston and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, standing near the city's Four Corners of Law.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This building is Charleston City Hall, completed in 1804 in the Adamesque style and still in use as the seat of the city's government at the historic Four Corners of Law.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Charleston houses the federal court for the Charleston Division of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina, within the city's historic French Quarter.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Occupying one corner of Charleston's Four Corners of Law, City Hall was constructed in the early 1800s and remains the working seat of municipal government.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 St. Michael's, completed in 1761, represents ecclesiastical law at the Four Corners of Law and remains Charleston's oldest church building still standing.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, this federal building has long served as Charleston's post office and courthouse and sits close to the Four Corners of Law intersection.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston County Courthouse, standing at the Four Corners of Law, dates to the early 1790s and was designed by James Hoban, both it and the White House drawing on Dublin's Leinster House.

Washington Square, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Washington Square, a historic public square in Charleston, lies within the French Quarter near the buildings of the Four Corners of Law, offering a quiet civic green space amid the surrounding streets.

Interior, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This interior view shows St. Michael's Episcopal Church, built between 1752 and 1761 and the oldest surviving church building in Charleston, still an active Episcopal parish today.

Graveyard, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is the churchyard of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston, a burial ground associated with the city's oldest surviving church, built between 1752 and 1761.

J. Waites Waping Judicial Center, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This federal building in Charleston was renamed the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center in 2003, honoring the U.S. district judge whose rulings challenged school segregation in the years before Brown v. Board of Education.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Built in the early 1790s, the Charleston County Courthouse shares a design lineage with the White House through its architect, James Hoban, who drew on Dublin's Leinster House for both buildings.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston City Hall, built between 1800 and 1804, represents civic authority at the Four Corners of Law, the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets named by Robert Ripley in the 1930s.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is Charleston's historic U.S. Post Office and Courthouse building, which continues to house proceedings of the federal district court in the heart of the French Quarter.

Graveyard, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The graveyard surrounding St. Michael's Episcopal Church has served as a burial ground in Charleston's French Quarter since the church's construction in the 18th century, with headstones marking centuries of local history.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston's St. Michael's Episcopal Church dates to the 1750s and occupies the southeast corner of the intersection of Broad and Meeting Streets, one of the four historic buildings of the Four Corners of Law.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Completed in 1804, Charleston City Hall has served continuously as the city's seat of government and is one of the four historic buildings anchoring the Four Corners of Law.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Built in the mid-18th century, St. Michael's Episcopal Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and anchors one corner of the Four Corners of Law.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The federal Post Office and Courthouse in Charleston has anchored one corner of the city's historic core since its construction, and was recognized on the National Register in 1974.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This Neoclassical building is the Charleston County Courthouse, erected 1790-1792 and attributed to James Hoban, who later designed the White House along similar lines.

Graveyard, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Pictured is the historic cemetery of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, adjoining the 1750s-era church at the Four Corners of Law in Charleston's oldest religious complex.

J. Waites Waping Judicial Center, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Formerly Charleston's U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, this building was rededicated as the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center in 2003 in memory of the judge known for his early civil rights rulings.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is the Charleston City Hall building at Meeting and Broad Streets, an early 19th-century structure that has long represented the city corner of the Four Corners of Law.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This photograph shows St. Michael's Episcopal Church, whose construction between 1752 and 1761 makes it the oldest religious building surviving in Charleston.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 St. Michael's Episcopal Church, a colonial-era landmark completed in 1761, stands at Broad and Meeting Streets alongside Charleston's other Four Corners of Law buildings.

Charleston County Court House, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The Charleston County Courthouse occupies a corner of the Four Corners of Law and was completed in 1792 to designs by James Hoban, the architect later responsible for the White House.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston's City Hall, dating to the early 1800s, sits opposite the county courthouse and post office at the Four Corners of Law in the heart of the French Quarter.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This 2019 photograph shows another angle of the US Post Office and Courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina's French Quarter, a district settled in the early eighteenth century.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 A third view of the US Post Office and Courthouse in Charleston's French Quarter, photographed in 2019, shows the federal building from another angle within the historic district.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The United States Post Office and Courthouse occupies a corner of Broad Street in Charleston's French Quarter, part of the historic Four Corners of Law, where municipal, state, and federal authority meet at a single intersection.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 St. Michael's Episcopal Church, at the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets in Charleston, is the city's oldest surviving church building, completed in 1761 and known for its tall white steeple.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston's French Quarter, built in the mid-eighteenth century and long used as a landmark for ships navigating into Charleston Harbor.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston City Hall sits at Meeting and Broad Streets, one of the four buildings forming the city's Four Corners of Law; the structure dates to the early nineteenth century and has long served as the seat of municipal government.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 A view of Charleston City Hall at the corner of Broad and Meeting Streets, one of four landmark public buildings that give this intersection its name, the Four Corners of Law.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The steeple of St. Michael's Episcopal Church rises above Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina; the church dates to the 1750s and is among the oldest religious buildings in the city.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston's St. Michael's Episcopal Church, completed in 1761, stands at Meeting and Broad Streets and remains one of the city's most recognizable colonial-era landmarks.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 A view of the United States Post Office and Courthouse on Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, one of the landmark buildings marking the historic Four Corners of Law intersection.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Built in the 1750s and 1760s, St. Michael's Episcopal Church stands at Meeting and Broad Streets in Charleston, its steeple long serving as a navigational marker for vessels entering the harbor.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 St. Michael's Episcopal Church, at the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets in Charleston, is the city's oldest surviving church building, completed in 1761 and known for its tall white steeple.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston City Hall sits at Meeting and Broad Streets, one of the four buildings forming the city's Four Corners of Law; the structure dates to the early nineteenth century and has long served as the seat of municipal government.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is Charleston City Hall in South Carolina, part of the historic Four Corners of Law intersection, where it has housed the city's municipal offices since the early 1800s.

US Post Office and Courthouse, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Facing Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina, this federal building houses the US Post Office and Courthouse, one of four civic buildings clustered at the well-known Four Corners of Law.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 This is St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston's French Quarter, built in the mid-eighteenth century and long used as a landmark for ships navigating into Charleston Harbor.

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 The steeple of St. Michael's Episcopal Church rises above Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina; the church dates to the 1750s and is among the oldest religious buildings in the city.

Charleston City Hall, French Quarter, Charleston, SC 2019 Charleston's City Hall, built in the early nineteenth century, stands at the well-known Four Corners of Law and continues to serve as the seat of the city's government.

United States Post Office in Charleston, South Carolina 2 2020 The United States Post Office on Broad Street is a federal building in the heart of Charleston's historic district, photographed in 2020.

United States Post Office in Charleston, South Carolina 2020 Charleston's United States Post Office on Broad Street, a federal building within the city's historic district, photographed in 2020.

80 Broad St City Hall 2021 Charleston City Hall at 80 Broad Street, part of the intersection known locally as the Four Corners of Law, where city, state, federal, and religious authority historically converged in the South Carolina port city.

88 Broad - rear in 2021 2021 This is the rear of 88 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina, within the city's historic district near the intersection known as the Four Corners of Law.

88 Broad - rear in 2023 2023 A 2023 photograph of the rear of a building at 90 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The street sits within Charleston's historic district, long known for its concentration of well-preserved colonial and antebellum-era architecture.