Though the Charleston County School District ploughs ahead with "demolition by neglect," the eight years that the Henry P. Archer School building has stood abandoned were not enough for the Board of Architectural Review to approve a tear down, even for an "affordable housing development."
East Side and other Charleston residents breathed a sigh of relief. The City Council has no business getting into the "affordable housing" business in any event. No one else wants to see our landmarks erased for generic apartment buildings. Get over it, Mayor Tecklenburg!
"Sally Ballard said historic schools such as Immaculate Conception School on Coming Street and Buist Academy on Calhoun Street have been preserved and redeveloped without needing to be torn down."
The district's pouring millions into football stadiums; it can dedicate some to cultural history.
"The original schoolhouse was built for black children in the segregated 1930s, with other wings added on over the years as its overcrowding problems grew. For decades, it was one of three elementary schools for black students in the city. Civil rights icon Septima P. Clark was a teacher there in the 1950s, until she was fired from the school district for working with NAACP."
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