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Rainbow Row is one of Charleston's most iconic architectural landmarks, preserving 13 historic houses that are painted in a rainbow of pastel colors. The row is the United States' longest preserved cluster of Georgian row homes, located along East Bay Street between Tradd and Elliott Streets. Many of the homes date back to the city's founding and are considered architecturally significant as some of the neighborhood's only homes that were spared in a 1778 fire. Throughout the 1920s, the homes were acquired by the Preservation Society of Charleston and painted according to a colonial Caribbean color scheme. Today, the houses are one of Charleston's most photographed landmarks, viewable to visitors on foot or in vehicles from nearby street and sidewalk vantage points.

83 E Bay St, Charleston, SC 29401, Phone: 803-528-8317

Rainbow Row
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