Winter Building

[3] It was inherited by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Gindrat, and her husband, Joseph S. Winter, in 1854.

[3] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the second floor was home to the Southern Telegraph Company.

[3] It was there that LeRoy Pope Walker, the Confederate States Secretary of War, sent a telegram to General P. G. T. Beauregard to advise him to fire on Fort Sumter, and thus start the Battle of Fort Sumter.

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Photograph of Court Street in 1874 with Winter Building on left