This is one of our favorite pictures of rural South Carolina. We snapped it more than nine years ago somewhere in South Carolina and, according to Google maps, it looks almost exactly the same today. Where is it? Send us your guess of what this photo shows – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery photo, “Dizzying,” is an “elaborate spiral staircase at the Nathaniel Russell House, located at 51 Meeting St in Charleston,” writes sleuth Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas. “It was originally built in 1808 by Nathaniel Russell (1738 – 1820), a highly successful Rhode Island shipping merchant and slave trader who first moved to Charleston in 1765 to capitalize on the city’s bustling seaport. … The property changed hands a few times after that, and was eventually purchased by the Historic Charleston Foundation in 1955 in order to preserve the house and open it to the public as a museum.”
Others who correctly identified the three-storey staircase were George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Daniel Prohaska, Frank Bouknight and Sybil Ludington, all of Summerville; Jean Prothro, Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; Bill Segars, Don Clark and Michael Webb, all of Hartsville; Jacie Godfrey and Barry Wingard, both of Florence; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Katherine D. Beard of Camden; and Pat Keadle of Wagener.
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