The Mystery Photo is back after a vacation hiatus. This week, try your hand at guessing what the reader who submitted it described as a difficult picture. What is this white building and where is it? Send your name and hometown – along with your guess – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
The last mystery we offered showed a building with a classic design. Hats off to the readers who correctly identified it as St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church on Hasell Street in Charleston. Correct guessers were: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Elizabeth Jones, Jay Altman and Jean Prothro, all of Columbia; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Allen Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and David Lupo of Mount Pleasant.
Jones tells us that “St. Mary’s was the first Roman Catholic parish in the two Carolinas and Georgia. It’s the mother church of the dioceses of South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. The current building was erected on the site in 1838. The original building and property were purchased in 1789.”
>> Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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