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Published: April 30th 2017
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Main House in Center. Helipad and Garage on left side, Boathouse and Yaht Dock on right. James Island County Park, Charleston, South Carolina
We took another day off yesterday and really didn't do much. Did a couple loads of laundry (well, in all fairness, Joan did a couple loads of laundry and I just helped carry it back and forth, which was all the way across the road at the bathhouse!). We managed to take the dogs over to the huge dog park that is part of this campground. In addition to several acres of fenced off land for the dogs to run loose, they have a large reservoir with three sandy beaches where the dogs can get in the water. Fleur isn't inclined that way, preferring to run. But Smoochie likes to wade up to where her body begins (just a few inches). Also took a long nap and did whatever we could to survive the humidity. It isn't that it is oppressively hot here, only up to high 80s, but it doesn't cool off a whole bunch at night (lows in the mid-70s). And the humidity is just way higher than us New Mexicans know how to deal with. I can get a tee shirt sopping wet in just a few hours!!
So
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Satellite View of the Main House that's about all I can write about yesterday - nothing else happened. I'm reading a book about how beaches work, different kinds of sand, how surf functions, etc. The same thing that produces the sandy barrier islands off of Georgia (the long continental shelf), also produces the finest sand. So there's what I learned yesterday.
With virtually nothing to do yesterday, I had a lot of time to think about Charleston and Savannah and other spots on our tour. And I kept coming back to one location in particular that we saw Friday down in lower Charleston. It was that huge private house built on a pier. For some reason I needed to learn more about it because it is so obvious and so, 'in your face'. When was it built? Who owns it? All those kinds of questions.
Using Google Maps I was able to locate it and it does have an address, 3 S Adgers Wharf, Charleston, South Carolina. I've captured some of the Google images of the place and included them in this post. Notice that it is nestled right between the Yacht Club and the Pilots Association wharf. It has its own pier, what
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From the Shore looks like a boathouse, and a large dock (can we say big private yacht?). There is a helipad right at the shore line so the residents can get across town or to the airport quickly. And, there is a gated, 'private residence' labeled driveway that runs right off of Concord Street so vehicle access is also guaranteed. (Air, land, and sea transportation are all readily accessible.)
The house is at least four stories, I think, with gardens and patios occupying a good portion of the western and southern corners of the top floor. The views down onto the Charleston battery area must be stunning. (The views upward from the remaining $1.8 million homes on Adgers Wharf are blocked and may, in the early morning hours, be in this mansions shadow, I'm not quite sure.). The house is of modern construction and must be something of a marvel itself, since building this structure on a pier that apparently withstood Hurricane Matthew is not anything to sneeze at.
Interestingly, that is all I can find out about this place. Normally, you type in an address to zillow and you get all kinds of info about the place. Not this one. Google the address and you only get information about its lesser neighbors. Someone has gone to great lengths to keep their home here out of public view. Except of course, when one is down there and you can't miss it!
Of course, there is a huge bundle of cash sunk into this place and that is probably at the core of my concerns. Unquestionably, there is a lot of money in Charleston. Whoever owns this home has a disproportionate share of even that disproportionate share. But is building this kind of place really the best use of one's money? We are cutting taxes on the rich now for exactly what reason? So they can build more of these?? Is this the final result of human evolution?(17.1.53)
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