CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The City of Charleston has approved a nearly $3 million restoration project for the twin smokestacks at the St. Julian Devine Community Center after finding the structures unstable a few years earlier.
The smokestacks will undergo a top-to-bottom and inside-out restoration. The project entails re-mortaring the bricks, replacing missing and broken bricks, reinforcing the bases and reinforcing the interior chimney linings.
“It’s been about a little over five years that we’ve been concerned about the future of the St. Julian Devine smokestacks. You know they are wonderful remnants of our sort of industrial past,” Historic Charleston Foundation President Winslow Hastie says…