Rainbow Row is one of the most often photographed and painted scenes in Charleston, South Carolina. This is a row of historic houses built individually between the 1720's-1790's that face the Charleston Harbor. The history goes as so - It was once an undesirable part of town after the Civil War. This area developed into slum condition. In the early 1900's Dorothy Porcher Legge purchased a section of dwellings on East Bay Street and began to renovate them with the idea of using a Colonial Caribbean color scheme, which is still in use today and gives the area the name Rainbow Row.
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