You can pretty much guarantee that this building wouldn’t be found outside of the South. This one is in South Carolina, but where? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Rear view,” was provided by longtime reader Don Clark of Hartsville. It shows the 1890s-era St. James-Santee Episcopal Church in McClellanville.
Among those who identified the church were Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman, both of Columbia; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Jacie Godfrey of Florence.
Segars said the chapel of ease was a “40’X60′ Carpenter Gothic style building built by Paul B. Lucas in 1890 for a cost of $560. Alexander Hume Lucas designed the building, which is covered with hand drawn black cypress shingles.”
Peel shared, “According to an article in the SC Picture Project here … ‘it was the sixth church built within the St. James-Santee Parish and became the primary church after the Civil War, when rice plantations along the Santee, which depended upon slave labor, were abandoned and former planters moved to more central locations such as McClellanville.’”
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