Month: August 2016

We are thrilled to announce we won FIRST PLACE in this year’s Peterson Prize competition for our measured drawings of Pompion Hill Chapel! Since 2007 the drawings produced by our students have placed every year in the annual competition. We are proud to add this first place award to our legacy!

https://www.nps.gov/hdp/competitions/Peterson_winners.htm

The Architectural Fragments Collection which was displayed in the MSHP program’s old home on Meeting Street has moved to the Cigar Factory.  Rising Second Year Rachel Freels spent the second portion of her summer internship designing interpretative panels for the collection and laying out locations for it to hang in the MSHP studios.  Moby Marks rode to our rescue, as he often does, to help anchor doors, door frames, windows, mantels and the rest of the collection in our new location so that it can continue to support our classes for many years to come.

We boxed up the contents of our old home at 292 Meeting Street and moved labs, studios, offices to our new home in the historic Cigar Factory on East Bay Street.  Built in 1882 as a textile mill, the large five story brick building at 701 East Bay operated as a cigar factory employing 1,400 through most of the 20th century.  Abandoned and empty for a decade, the Cigar Factory is today a successful rehabilitation that houses retail and commercial offices on the ground floor and offices above.  The MSHP program occupies the second floor of the building with Clemson’s other Charleston-based design programs.  Come see us!