House and Garden 
A CHARLESTON HOUSE 
natural development 
along the line of veran¬ 
das in a climate where 
summer begins early and 
lasts until late and a 
large portion of life must 
be spent away from the 
direct rays of the sun. 
Although most of the 
old Eng ish homes in and 
around Charleston were 
originally built without 
verandas, one of the ear¬ 
liest examples of the two- 
storey porch treatment in 
connection with Colonial 
work in America is fur¬ 
nished by the Bull-Prin- 
gle house of Charleston, 
built in 1760. The ve¬ 
randa as a “feature,” 
however, did not estab- 
columns now in use being but a revival, or a 
vindication (whichever you please) of South¬ 
ern building fashions of 1800-1865; but 
they were used differently. The inference 
to he drawn is obvious at a glance. Verandas 
are a necessity in the 
South, and necessity has 
an inevitable way of 
making laws for itself, 
especially in connection 
with architecture 
climatically considered. 
The two-storey ve¬ 
randas, or galleries, as 
they are universally 
designated in the South, 
in and around Charles¬ 
ton, through Beaufort, 
Camden, and the other 
older cities of South 
Carolina, afford a re¬ 
markable exhibit of the 
same idea differently 
expressed. One of the 
salient features of this 
particular section, and 
of the coast region of 
Georgia as well, is the 
“double-decker,” a williams house, camden 
hsh itself in the South 
until after the arrival in 
Charleston of rich emigrants from Bermuda 
and San Domingo. I hese, seeking to make 
themselves comfortable in their own way, 
reproduced as features of their new homes 
the verandas to which they were accustomed 
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