[1] President George Washington visited Charleston on his Southern Tour in May 1791, may have met with Hoban, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia, the national capital at the time, in June 1792.

[2] In 1883–1884, the courthouse underwent a large renovation performed by Kerrigan & Grant.

[3] The Courthouse remains in use, located in the historic district near the park at Washington Square.

It was built on the site of and incorporated the ruins of the South Carolina Statehouse (1753, burned 1788), the capitol building for the Colony of South Carolina under British colonial rule.

[4] Hoban also designed a new statehouse building nearby, which was burned down during the Civil War.