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Open House to Mark Opening of Founders Hall at Charles Towne Landing
For Immediate Release, September 2009
An open house will be held from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, at the new Founders Hall community building at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site.
Founders Hall comprises 9,000 square feet of interior space and an 1,800-square-foot porch. A full kitchen and large and small gathering rooms are included to accommodate groups of up to 150. The building will be used for both park programs and community rentals.
Charles Towne Landing preserves and interprets the founding site of Charleston on the banks of the Ashley River and Founders Hall includes small exhibits and signage that help tell that story.
Founders Hall was built to meet the requirements for Silver LEED certification, including natural day lighting, occupancy sensors for energy savings, water-saving plumbing fixtures and a geothermal heating and cooling system.
The building’s exterior also was designed to complement that of the nearby Visitors Center, which opened in 2006 as the centerpiece of a $19 million redevelopment of the historic site where British planters landed after sailing from Barbados in 1670 and founded the first permanent English settlement in the Carolinas.
Founders Hall is a final step in the park’s redevelopment, the first major project of its kind at the park since it was opened in 1970 by the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism. Only the renovation of the otter exhibit in the park’s Animal Forest naturalistic zoo remains to complete the multi-year project.
The Oct. 1 open house will celebrate the building’s completion and include a presentation by archaeologists about recent findings at the park.
It also will include a book signing for “Beautiful Places: The Timeless Beauty of South Carolina State Parks.” The book was created as a fundraiser and celebration of the South Carolina state parks’ 75th anniversary. On hand for the signing will be its author, SCPRT Director Chad Prosser, and the book’s photographer, jon o. holloway of Greenwood, as well as Columbia-based writer Cal Harrison, who researched and wrote the history of South Carolina state parks for the book.
For more information, go to www.SouthCarolinaParks.com or contact Marion Edmonds at (803) 734-1370 or medmonds@scprt.com.
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