“Historic buildings we commonly razed in the early 20th century in the name of downtown progress.”
City Directories and History: CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN BANK BUILDING
Constructed circa 1929 Otto Olaf architect
“The present building with its monumental portico, supported by fluted Ionic columns and with bracketed window surrounds, still serves as a bank and is one of Charleston’s few Neoclassical Revival style public edifices. Otto Olaf, the architect, was also a civil engineer and designer of the Savannah River Bridge. The real importance for this location lies with the bank’s prede-cessors, the last of which was demolished in 1928. From the 1730s the northeast corner of Church and Broad Streets had been occupied by a succession of important taverns: Shepheard’s,
Swallow’s, Gordon’s, and the City Tavern. The long room, stretching north along Church Street, served various purposes for the colonial government, as well as providing the setting for Charleston’s (and America’s) first full theatrical season in 1735 and as the location of the establishment in the United States of the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry in 1801. This last tavern building on the site became a nineteenth-century grocery store, Klinck and Wickenberg.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
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Elizabeth Caroline Wickenberg Ely says
It’s Klinck and Wickenberg – My Swedish family immigrated to Charleston in the early 1800s and became very successful merchants. The lovely house at 192 Ashley Avenue that is still standing was built by my forebear Fabian Reinhold Wickenberg, who married Elizabeth Caroline Klinck.