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The Original Charleston Math Trail #7 61 Church Street - First Baptist Church The First Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist church in the South, is called the "Mother Church” of Southern Baptists. Organized in Kittery, Maine this church was driven by persecution to South Carolina in 1683. In 1699, William Elliot donated the present lot on Church Street and a frame building was erected. The cornerstone of the present church was laid in September 1819. It was designed by architect Robert Mills, who considered it "the best specimen of correct taste in architecture of all the modern buildings in this city." Although Mills said the building was "purely Greek in its style," it actually has Tuscan columns and Roman arches. 1. Evaluate: (# full circles in windows) + (# of semicircular windows) + 4(# of

rectangular windows) + 5(# of Tuscan columns) 2. Given ecornerstonon# ≈ 42.6497, round this decimal to the nearest whole number,

add the sum of digits when cornerstone was laid, then subtract the expression

(# rectangular windows)tan [arcsin ]10

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Church Street - Ladd Brown House (also Thomas Rose House) Thomas Rose, an Ashley River planter, is said to have built this two and one-half story stuccoed brick house soon after his marriage to Beuler Elliot in 1733. The house has an asymmetrical plan typical of early Charleston houses, and early Georgian interiors with robust and simple paneling, staircase and other woodwork. The piazza is a 20th century addition. The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of Dr. Joseph Ladd Brown. In 1786 he was carried into the house after being mortally wounded in a duel, in which he defended the honor of an actress named Mrs. Robertson, nicknamed "Perdita." 1. Let (# people in the duel) - 1 = ones digit of next address and # letters in Mrs. Robertson's nickname = tens digit of next address. 2. A piazza is a large porch or veranda. If a = 1, b = 2 etc., evaluate: (sum of the values

of the letters in the word piazza) - (# of shutters on Church Street side of house) + 12

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Church Street - Colonel Robert Brewton House The spirited woman who once owned this house, Mary Weyman Brewton Foster, talked back to a British officer, Lt. Col. Banastie Tarleton, and was banished to Philadelphia for her nimble wit and sharp tongue. The lieutenant colonel said, "I would like to see this fellow Washington of whom people talk so much." Whereupon Mrs. Foster retorted: "What a pity you did not look behind you at the Battle of Cowpens." The house, built in 1720, is one of Charleston's earliest examples of a single house. 1. Evaluate: 3(age in decades of house) – (# of trapezoids above front windows) 2. Given: h = 8 in., b1 = 13 in., b2 = 6 in. Find the area of one of the trapezoids above

the windows and doors.

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Church Street - DuBose Heyward House In this small, notable post-Revolutionary house, DuBose Heyward wrote Porgy, the novel on which the operetta Porgy and Bess was based. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. The house has been combined with 78 Church Street, another post-Revolutionary dwelling, into one residence. Tradition says President George Washington spoke from a balcony at 78 Church Street on his visit to Charleston in 1791. The present balcony, however, is in the Regency style of c. 1815-25. The third floor of 78 Church Street is partly supported by a mahogany bedpost. 1. Find the product of windows and shutters that face Church Street, take this result and

add the number of earthquake bolts. 2. Refer to the title of the operetta written by Gershwin that was based on the novel

written by DuBose Heyward. Determine the probability that a letter chosen at random from this operetta title will be a vowel (not including y). Let this result represent the

number n. Evaluate:

−+ 125

2 nn

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Church Street - Heyward Washington House The Heyward Washington House is located in the downtown Historic District, within the area of the original walled city. Daniel Heyward, a rice planter and founder of a prominent rice-planting dynasty, built the brick double house in 1772. He removed a two-story brick house from the site but may have kept the existing outbuildings. The house was the home of his son Thomas Heyward, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. President George Washington stayed here on his visit to the city in 1791. During the late 19th century, the lower left corner of the house was converted to a bakery. The house was restored in 1929 by the Charleston Museum and the Preservation Society of Charleston and is operated as a house museum by the Garden Club of Charleston. 1. Since this house once housed a bakery, evaluate (dozen)(days in a week) + (days in a

school week)

2. Evaluate the sum of the sequence defined by ∑=

+n

kk

1)57( , where n = the number of

windows on the first floor façade on Church Street. Subtract one from this result.

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Church Street – Cabbage Row Cabbage Row was named for the buildings along Church Street at Elliot Street where vegetable farmers would come to display their goods for sale. This valuable three-story double tenement of stuccoed brick was called "Cabbage Row" because black tenants there put cabbages for sale on the windowsills. This was partly the inspiration for "Catfish Row," the locale of DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy. A notable feature is the wrought iron grille in the entrance to the central arched passage. 1. If 8 cabbages were placed on each of the windowsills of this double tenement you will

have a half dozen too many to equal the next address. 2. Let m = the number of windows on the Church Street façade. Find the y-coordinate

of the vertex of the parabola f(x) = x2 – 6x + m + 115

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East Bay - Old Exchange The Old Exchange and Custom House was built in 1767-71. William Rigby Naylor was the architect of the building, which was constructed by the brothers Peter and John Adam Horlbeck. The building is reminiscent of exchanges in London, Liverpool, and Bristol. It originally had an open arcade on the first floor and an elegant assembly on the second. Twin stair towers that projected into East Bay Street were taken down in the early part of the 19th century. The building was conveyed to the Federal government in 1818 and became the Post Office. In 1912, the Rebecca Motte Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution began negotiating to acquire the property but did not occupy it until 1921. In 1972 restoration of the Exchange Building began at a cost $1,910,000. The restoration is a modern adaptation of the historic building and is not meant to be an exact replication of the original appearance. The stair towers for example, were replaced, not on the west front where they would again have impeded traffic, but on the east side. 1. Take the last two digits of the year that the Daughters of American Revolution began

to negotiate for this property, then add 5. 2. Above the entrance to the Exchange building is a window consisting of three

concentric semicircles. Find the central angle in one of the sectors for the innermost semicircle and let this value be θ. Let n = the number of semicircular windows at the entrance. Evaluate the expression (tan θ)·(20 – n).

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Chalmers Street - The Pink House Research indicates that John Breton constructed the “Pink House” between 1694 and 1712 as a tavern. It is constructed partly of Bermuda stone, a coral limestone imported in blocks from Bermuda as building material. The building's gambrel roof is one of a few surviving in Charleston. It may be the city's oldest building and may have been used in the world's oldest profession, since 18th Century Chalmers Street was at the center of Charleston's "red light" district. The building, once the studio of artist Alice R. Huger Smith, later became a law office. 1. If these Bermuda stones were rectangular solids, 2" X 2" X 58", determine ½ the

volume of one stone. 2. Let n = # of earthquake bolts visible from the parking lot side of the house and let m

= the measure of one interior angle of a regular pentagon. Evaluate: m + n + 3

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Meeting Street - Old Lower Fire Station Built in 1887, the Flemish-bonded brick structure was completed at a cost of $7,000 as a strategic move to strengthen the City’s central fire warning system. The tower at the rear of the property contains a 2,500-pound iron bell. The bell was used for everything from alerting citizens to fire and hurricanes to notifying the public about important national events, and until 1927, as a means to tell time by tolling daily at 12:00 Noon. The Old Lower Fire Station has been converted to city offices; however, it remained active as a fire station, keeping watch over its citizens, until 1953. Today, the bell is silent except when used ceremonially. It most recently rang 343 times, once for each firefighter lost in the September 11th World Trade Center tragedy. 1. Evaluate: (# bell tolls honoring firefighters of 9/11) ÷ 7 X 3 - (hour bell tolled daily to

tell time) 2. Evaluate: weightsbell ' + 85

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Church Street - Dock Street Theatre The Dock Street Theatre is located in the shell of the old Planter’s Hotel, which was famous food as well as being the birthplace of Planter’s Punch. In 1838 an infamous guest of the hotel, Junius Brutus Booth allegedly attempted to murder his manager in one of the hotel’s rooms. The original Dock Street Theatre, which was the first building built specifically for theatrical performances in America, raised its curtain February 12, 1736 with a production of The Recruiting Officer. In 1935, the City of Charleston, as a Works Progress Administration project, remodeled the old Planter’s Hotel property as the new Dock Street Theatre. Dorothy and DuBose Heyward were in attendance when the Theatre reopened on November 26, 1936 with a repeat performance of The Recruiting Officer, photos of which ran in the newly established Life magazine. The plaster in the Theatre predates construction (1806) and was salvaged from the Ratcliffe-King House slated for demolition farther up the street. 1. In the year that the Dock Street Theatre raised its curtain, let a = the thousands digit, b

= the hundreds digit, and c = the tens digit. Evaluate: (c - a)(b + c)2

2. Refer to the values of a, b, and c found in question #1. Evaluate: 2+

∑++

=

cba

aici

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_____ East Bay Street – Custom House With funds appropriated by Congress in 1848, the site of Fitzsimons’ Wharf was bought in 1849 to build the US Custom House. During excavation of the basement, the remains of Craven’s Bastion, a colonial-era fortification, were found. The building’s construction, interrupted by the Civil War, was completed in 1879 as it is today. Marble was used for the two upper floors. Roman Corinthian porticos, engaged columns, and entablature (the section that lies between the columns and the roof) surround the cruciform (shaped like a cross) building. Emile T. Viett carved the marble capitals and decorative work. Congratulations! You have completed your Math Trail. We hope that you were able to

work the problems, learn some history and most of all had fun doing math with friends.