United States Marine Hospital
This building, designed by Robert Mills,
widely known architect was erected 1833
for the care of sick and disabled merchant
seamen. It served also as a teaching clinic
for the Medical College of South Carolina,
and after 1860 as a military hospital for
the Confederacy. Following the war a
free school for Negro children, staffed
by white southern women, was conducted
here. From 1895 to 1939 it was occupied by
the Jenkins Orphanage for Negroes. In
1939 the building was remodeled for the
administrative offices of the Housing
Authority of the City of Charleston, S.C.
1954
Placed by the Historical Commission of Charleston, S.C.
Marker is on 20 Franklin Street near Poulnot Lane, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
