Robert Behre
Post & Courier
Charleston, SC, United States
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Development pressures Cooper River Historic District, SC's largest at 46 square miles
The Cooper River Historic District is South Carolina’s largest, but planned development around it is causing preservationists and conservationists to take note. → Read More
After 25 years, Charleston's shuttered Navy base still has 'a long way to go'
It's difficult and perhaps even subjective to judge how successful a military base redevelopment has been, but 25 years after the Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard was marked for closure, → Read More
Does Drayton Hall have the finest piece of colonial furniture in the U.S.? Maybe.
A desk and bookcase that once belonged to John Drayton is considered the finest surviving piece of furniture imported into colonial America and is currently a star of the show → Read More
SC survey finds Hurricane Florence mostly spared historic buildings
Hurricane Florence flooded hundreds of homes and highways across South Carolina this fall, but it largely spared historic buildings. → Read More
Charleston's Drayton Hall opens its new visitors center
Those visiting Drayton Hall, one of South Carolina's premier plantation museums, should have a dramatically better experience today than a year ago. → Read More
Big data offers big insight into big traffic
COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s highway planners have more insight than ever into how congested our roads are, thanks to the phones, navigation devices and other personal electronics that we carry with us in our cars each day. → Read More
West Ashley aquatics center plan makes a splash
Charleston officials got their first glimpse Tuesday of an ambitious plan to build a $38 million aquatics center just south of Citadel Mall. → Read More
Neighbors watch warily as rail yard permit proceeds
Penny Middleton knows she is getting a new neighbor — a sprawling $280 million rail yard where cranes will shuffle containers between trains serving nearby containers ships — but she’s unsure what, if any, benefits it might bring → Read More
Sheldon Church: Keeping a ruin from further ruin
YEMASSEE — The ruins of the nation’s first church built in a temple form have stood quietly in remote woods here for more than a century, but growing traffic is posing new threats. → Read More
The long and winding saga of the Calais Milestones
Just because something is on the National Register of Historic Places doesn’t mean it’s going to be preserved. → Read More
Judge agrees to reconsider part of Jasper ruling
Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson twice has ordered The Beach Co., Charleston officials and other groups to mediate their dispute over the Sergeant Jasper site, and he appeared to stop just shy of ordering them to try a third time. → Read More
S.C. schools seem likely to abide by Obama’s school restroom letter
School districts across South Carolina have tried to handle transgender students’ restroom needs quietly, balancing students’ concerns with legal ones, and that seems unlikely to change. → Read More
Summerville smoothing the edges on its rectangular square
SUMMERVILLE — Hutchinson Square, downtown’s main public space, is getting some sprucing up, the first step in a larger plan to make it reflect the town’s past while better serving its future. → Read More
Charleston County: Ashley River bridge test done; barrels gone Sunday
The orange-and-white barrels will be removed from the T. Allen Legare Jr. Bridge over the Ashley River on Sunday — a bit earlier than Charleston County previously indicated. → Read More
Bike lane may face rocky road
Temperatures won’t be the only thing rising here this summer: The battle over a bike and pedestrian lane on the T. Allen Legare Bridge will heat up before both Charleston city and county councils. → Read More
City moves toward appealing Jasper ruling
The recent court ruling condemning how the Charleston Board of Architectural Review handled the controversial Sergeant Jasper project could echo across downtown, limiting the city board’s ability to consider height, scale and mass of new build → Read More
Historic Charleston Foundation honors Charleston’s hidden preservationists
Just a few miles north of Charleston’s historic district, one can find a lot of people who play a crucial, if somewhat anonymous, role in keeping the city’s oldest buildings looking good. → Read More
A hospital, a rail line and an uncertain future
It’s the place where many of “the greatest generation” healed from their greatest injuries, but for preservationists, the former Charleston Naval Base’s hospital is now the one in need of care. → Read More
Army Corps releases North Charleston rail study
A new federal report has found significant impacts would result from running a new rail line north of the former Charleston Naval Base, and now the public will get a chance to speak out. → Read More
Berkeley Supervisor Bill Peagler draws growth boundary
MONCKS CORNER — County Supervisor Bill Peagler has upped the ante to channel new residential growth to areas where infrastructure and utilities already exist. → Read More