City Directories and History: GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY
Constructed circa 1829
The German Friendly Society was founded in 1766, but this building has been its headquarters, and that of the later Arion Society, only since 1942 (the society was originally located at 27 Archdale Street). The three-story brick structure was formerly capped by a hipped roof with a glass monitor or square cupola. This building originally housed a Bible depository, a re-sponse to prevailing evangelical currents in the early-nineteenth century, and retained that use until 1882 when the Carolina Art Association purchased the building as its headquarters. It housed the fledgling col-lection of the organization and served also as a studio until construction of the Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery began in 1905.
The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
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