Charleston... for those who have been to Charleston will recognize these balconies across from Battery Park; the first house in "Rainbow Row".
In the early 1900s, Dorothy Pocher Legge purchased a section of houses on East Bay Street and painted them pastel pink based on a colonial Caribbean color scheme. Current and future owners followed her lead when painting their houses, and soon a 'rainbow' of pastels emerged that are still there today.
It has also been suggested by locals that the houses were painted in the various pastel colors so that intoxicated sailors coming in from the port could remember which houses were their own!
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