22 Chalmers St.	24 Chalmers St.	34 Chalmers St.	36 Chalmers St.	38 Chalmers St.
Union Insurance Building 7 State St.	9 State St.	10 State St.	11 State St.	12 State St.
13 State St.	17 State St.	Nathan Hart House 18 State St.	Frederick Wolfe House 19 State St.	20 State St.
George Locke Building 21-23 State St.	Johnson-Poinsett Tenements 22-24 State St.	Robert Dorill house 25 State St.	26 State St.	Wurdeman-Ferand House 27 State St.
27 1/2 State St.	28 State St.	29 State St.	30 State St.	30 1/2 State St.

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(Lodge Alley) The French Quarter District is located in an area of the old walled city of Charleston where the French Huguenots once had warehouses and dwellings. Early Charleston merchants used the warehouses for their ships at the docks off East Bay Street. One of the oldest streets in Charleston, Lodge Alley is a visual example of Charleston’s Old World ties, exemplifying the definition of an ally as a city street but not a main thoroughfare. Lodge Alley still has a seaport look. Brick warehouses of Flemish and American bond bound each side of the ten-foot wide passage. The alley is paved in Belgian blocks - a local term for a brick shaped block of granite. The ten-foot width of Lodge Alley compares favorably with many of Charleston’s principal streets of the early 18th century, now impossibly narrow by modern standards. Lodge Alley also illustrates Charleston’s distinction as one of the cradles of Freemasonry in America. The alley takes its name from the Masonic Lodge situated on its course about midway from East Bay Street. This site was acquired as early as 1773, making it one of the oldest Masonic Lodges in the country. As part of the old walled city of Charleston, Lodge Alley and the French Quarter District are in an area which reflects not only three centuries of South Carolina history, but also three centuries important to the course of American history. Listed in the National Register September 19, 1973.

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