Spring in Charleston: Where Design Meets Discovery
The Historic Charleston Foundation wants to tell you about the Charleston Festival (March 18-April 11) and Charleston by Design (March 12-15) as well as present some of the artifacts found at two museum houses during archaeological digs.
Every spring, Charleston doesn’t just show off — it opens up.
Behind gates, inside historic rooms, and even beneath floorboards, the city reveals how it has actually lived.
From March 12–15, Charleston by Design begins the season.
From March 18–April 11, The Charleston Festival expands that conversation across the peninsula.
Together they form a single idea: preservation isn’t nostalgia — it’s investigation.
Charleston by Design shows the intention. The Charleston Festival shows the evidence.
Charleston, uniquely, allows both conversations to happen in the same month, sometimes in the same house. You might walk through a perfectly restored dining room in the morning… and that afternoon learn what was thrown away just outside its door 200 years ago.
Because preservation is often mistaken for decoration. But in Charleston, preservation is forensic.
It asks not just what survived — but whose stories were buried. Spring is when the city answers.
Meet the Charleston Historic Foundation in front of H&M at 281 King Street.