The French Quarter is a

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and a section of downtown Charleston,

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, that is listed on the

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The area is considered to be bounded by the Cooper River on the east, Broad Street on the south, Meeting Street on the west, and Market Street on the north. The French Quarter is within the original "walled" city of Charleston. The area began being called the French Quarter in 1973 when preservation efforts began for warehouse buildings on the Lodge Alley block. The name recognizes the high concentration of French merchants in the area's history. It was named to the

in 1973.

The neighborhood was settled as part of the original Grande Modell of Charles Towne in 1680. It is famous for its art galleries; it also has many restaurants and places of commerce as well as Charleston's Waterfront Park. Charleston's French Quarter is home to many fine historic buildings, among them, the Pink House Tavern, built around 1712, and the Old Slave Mart, built by Z.B. Oakes in 1859. Also in the French Quarter are the

Dock Street Theatre The Dock Street Theatre is a theater in the historic French Quarter neighborhood of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. History The structure, which was built as a hotel in 1809 and converted to a theater in 1935, occupies the site of the first ...

, arguably the first site of theatrical productions in the United States, and the French Huguenot Church, a beautiful Gothic Revival church which houses the sole-surviving French Calvinist Congregation in the United States. St. Philip's Episcopal Church, the first congregation in Charleston, whose current building dates to 1835, is also in the French Quarter. St. Philip's graveyard is the final resting place of

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, the youngest signer of the

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, and U.S. Senator and Vice President John C. Calhoun, whose body was exhumed during the Civil War and buried near the church in an unmarked grave. Later, after the war, his body was moved back to its original location and a memorial constructed in the 1880s.

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{{Ethnic enclaves French-American culture in South Carolina French communities National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, South Carolina Neighborhoods in Charleston, South Carolina Urban quarters in the United States Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina

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