Garden & Gun

Charleston Gem

Around every corner, the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, reveals or conceals a secret. A hidden cobblestoned alley. A pocket garden spied through an elaborate iron gate. And if you were to walk by the diminutive eighteenth-century kitchen house set back from King Street just south of Broad Street, you might not even notice that its understated brick exterior disguises a boldly modern addition, largely invisible to the prying eyes of passersby.

At the time of its construction in 2015, the two-story addition ruffled feathers, as even the slightest tweak south of Broad often does. When the then homeowners put the house

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