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Located at the center of the Charleston’s Historic District, the Old City Jail served that purpose from c.1802 until 1939. By 2015, it sat empty and worryingly derelict; no other property stood so imperiled anywhere in the historic core. In desperate need of preservation, the Jail had been the subject of numerous stalled rehabilitation efforts. The public sector had washed its hands of the building, and the private sector had repeatedly failed to find a viable and sensitive plan. This successful private rehabilitation effort was the result of restrained design, quality workmanship, and savvy application of historic preservation tax credits.