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Date
Winter 1-1978
Description
This photograph, taken in the late 1970s, is an aerial view of the Citadel: Military College of South Carolina. The Romanesque design of the buildings was based on the architecture of the Old Citadel, which was designed by Frederick Wesner in 1828.
Following Reconstruction the Old Citadel, which had been built in the 1830s in response to a slave revolt, resumed its function as a military college. By World War I, despite numerous structural additions, enrollment had outgrown the building and a new campus was constructed in Charleston.
Rights
This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Building Style
Neoclassical
Subject Headings
Aerial photography -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Charleston, S.C. -- Aerial photographs; Aerial photography in city planning -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Military education -- United States -- South Carolina; Architecture -- 20th century; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Romanesque Revival;
Country Name
United States of America
Region Name
South Carolina
City Name
Charleston
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Charleston: Aerial View of “The Citadel: Military College of South Carolina”" (1978). Browse All. 790.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/790
Keywords
aerial, Romanesque, architecture, modern
Notes
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/charleston/ssa.htm
(accessed 30 Nov 2011)
http://www.citadel.edu/citadel-history/brief-history.html
(accessed 29 Nov 2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citadel,_The_Military_College_of_South_Carolina (accessed 30 Nov 2011)