Two Storey Galleries in the South 
in their old ones. The result was so clearly 
an improvement on what had preceded it 
that the idea immediately took root and 
flourished, amplifying itself in various ways 
as an idea is apt to when once planted in 
fert le soil. 
Some of the two-storey galleries of Charles¬ 
ton are furnished with blinds, as in the case 
of the Horry house on lower Meeting Street. 
These are especially suggestive of the West 
Indies. Some stretch along the front of the 
house one above the other, as shown by 
the verandas of the Charleston house illus¬ 
trated here which, though rather late, is 
a typical example of the style. Here the 
upper and lower galleries are exact duplicates 
of each other, with the exception that the 
one leading from the second storey is more 
elaborate in detail, having Corinthian col¬ 
umns with the usual foliated capitals, while 
those of the lower veranda are Ionic. 
Furthermore, the ceiling is more ornate, 
from which comes the suggestion that the 
drawing-room of the house is probably on 
DETAIL OF VERANDA OF HOUSE, CORNER 
HUDSON AND MEETING STS., CHARLESTON 
HOUSE, CORNER OF HUDSON AND MEETING 
STREETS, CHARLESTON 
tbe second floor, as indeed is not infrequently 
the case in and about Charleston. The 
same double-decked gallery is repeated in 
the rear. An earlier example of two-storey 
veranda treatment is furnished in the view 
of the Charleston cottage. Here it occupies 
two sides of the house, producing another 
decidedly West Indian effect. This house 
was evidently built during tbe early Post- 
Revolutionary period and may be cited as 
one of the earliest examples of the then pre¬ 
vailing influence exerted by emigrants from 
Bermuda and San Domingo, to which I 
have already alluded. 
Sometimes the Charleston builder gave 
himself quite frankly over to these West 
Indian ideas; at others he sought to pre¬ 
serve some features of the old classicism, 
while combining with it the double-deck 
veranda which had been found to be really 
indispensable. An instance of this is fur¬ 
nished by one of the most monumental of 
all the old Charleston houses of this period. 
It is situated on the corner of Hudson and 
Meeting streets. As you approach it towers 
up in a manner positively baronial, quite 
outclassing the other buildings in the vicinity. 
All the details of this fine old house were 
designed with a careful eye as to what was 
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