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By Lauren Petracca lpetracca@postandcourier.com Editor’s note: This is the 34th, and final, installment in a serialized history of Charleston to commemorate the city’s 350th anniversary. For nearly 300 years, Charleston had famously resisted change. In the second half of the 20th century, the city would see almost nothing else. In the 1950s, the Orphan House — a building so old President George Washington had laid the cornerstone — was demolished. In 1960, the grand antebellum Charleston Hotel was razed. A few years later, the Commercial Club/Timrod Hotel near the Four Corners of Law fell to the wrecking ball. The city’s profile was irrevocably changing, as was its geography.

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