South Carolina is live on Travelog with one city, Charleston, home to the Charleston Historic District, a National Historic Landmark since October 9, 1960. Its best-known stretch, Rainbow Row, is 13 privately owned pastel-painted homes, viewable freely from the sidewalk but not open to the public inside. Charleston also adopted the nation's first historic zoning ordinance in 1931, the same year Rainbow Row's transformation began.
Charleston's Historic District pairs an official 1960 federal designation with a still-privately-owned, still-inhabited historic street, worth understanding the distinction between the two before visiting, covered in full below.
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