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Roper Hospital, named after a Charlestonian who willed extensive real estate to the Medical Society of South Carolina (see The Medical College Of South Carolina) for the establishment of a hospital, was built between 1850 and 1852. This postcard view is from 1912.
Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection