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Jean Dixon Sanders

Jean Dixon Sanders has been a painter and graphic designer for 30 years. A graduate of Washington College, where she majored in fine art, She lives in Florida. She contributes several weekly illustrations to The Chestertown Spy. Her blog, Fine Art Daily, can be seen at www.jeandsanders.blogspot.com


Fine Art Daily - July 26, 2010

Published: July 26, 2010 06:09 Last Updated: May 19, 2011 21:15

Charles Drake House, 50 South Battery, Charleston, SC

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Charles Drake House, 50 South Battery, Charleston, SC
(© Jean Dixon Sanders 2010)

July 26, 2010


This is the Charles Drake house at 50 South Battery. The garden echos the strange melange of architecture: Sweet potato vines! Colonial Revival! Shocking pink crape myrtle! Queen Anne! Asparagus fern! Arts and Crafts style!
Heavens to Betsy, this house has it all. Circa 1890, it is a veritable newcomer to the neighborhood. The Drakes eclectic tastes called for a stone foundation with a paneled, shingled and clapboarded second-story. There is a porte-cochere, an arched arcade and curved windows, interior and exterior shutters, gingerbread, columns, capitals, balustrades and an overhanging roof topped with an American flag.
This week we will focus on gardens and the unusual. Just the ticket when walking around the Battery in the early morning, dodging the vigilant parking patrol.

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