The Livability Factor

Early preservation advocate Susan Pringle Frost (right) was the first woman in Charleston to earn a real estate license, which she used to buy up derelict properties, including tenements along Rainbow Row (above), and restore them. In 1920, she helped establish the Society for The Preservation of Old Dwellings, now known as the Preservation Society of Charleston.

Kristopher King leads the work of the Preservation Society of Charleston in “ensuring the patterns of the historic city and the way the city has functioned historically are preserved,” he says.