Charleston Currents

MYSTERY PHOTO: At the top of the building

This week’s mystery focuses on the top of a South Carolina building. That’s the only clue you get. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The April 23 Mystery Photo, scrubbed by us of the identifying name carved in stone, showed the J. Waites Waring federal courthouse annex near the Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.

MYSTERY PHOTO: Very official-looking room

Hanahan photographer Chuck Boyd sent along this very official-looking local mystery. But what and where is it? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.”

Virginia sleuth solves tough mystery
Last week’s mystery was one of the toughest ever. It sought the location of a portrait of retired Democratic U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings of Isle of Palms was one of the toughest in a long time.

Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant got a half mark for knowing that the portrait was moved from what was the Hollings Judicial Center before it was renamed for the late federal judge Waties Waring. Upon the renaming, which was requested by Hollings (the only time a federal building has been renamed like this), the portrait was moved to Columbia.

But only one Currents reader — George Graf of Palmyra, Va., — knew that the portrait is now in a room in a new part of the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina that is named in honor of Hollings.