Henry P. Staats Collection
Dublin Core
Title
Henry P. Staats Collection
Creator
Staats, Henry P.
Subject
Charleston Architecture
Description
Captured by photographer and architect Henry P. Staats, this community presents a moment of change in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The images affectionately demonstrate both the stagnation and progress of the Charleston area from its colonial roots to its tumultuous survival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, presenting a time capsule of the Lowcountry as it was in the mid-1950s.
Contributor
Jack Sutton (digital assistant)
Collection Items
83 & 85 Church Street
Back of photograph: "(c) Henry P. Staats / 83-85 Church St." 83-85 Church Street, Cabbage Row or William Hendricks Tenements were constructed in 1749 or 1750 by the Christ Church planter William Hendricks. The first name refers to cabbages that were…
