Historic Sullivan’s Island movie show may change into residence

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) – The Fort Moultrie Submit Theatre is a landmark on Sullivan’s Island, and its historical past dates again to 1930. It’s now up for preliminary approval for its subsequent use at a Design Overview Board assembly taking place Wednesday.

The applicant requested preliminary approval to conduct a historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the Fort Moultrie Submit Theater positioned at 1454 Center Avenue.

The applicant says the work can be a renovation of the historic movie show right into a single-family residence. The appliance says the objective of the renovation is to “carry again to life a constructing that has sat vacant for too lengthy.”

In keeping with a doc from the U.S. Division of the Inside, it was a part of the Fort Moultrie historic district, a small assortment of buildings on the western finish of the island.

“Having that district and having buildings like this theater, type of offers that id and soul to Sullivan’s Island,” says architectural historian Brittany Lavelle Tulla, who owns BVL Historic Preservation Analysis.

Applicant Kevan Hoertdoerfer says you don’t know precisely what you’ll discover once you begin engaged on an previous historic constructing like this, however he says will probably be a really distinctive piece of structure that may final for generations to return.

Tulla says it’ll take a gaggle effort to each have fun its historical past, but in addition transition it into one thing that’s related at the moment.

“Actually on the finish of the day, we wish these buildings for use, however we wish it to be a compromise of the previous and the brand new.” Tulla says.

Tulla says its not unusual to see an previous film theatre getting used for one thing new in our space, however it’s distinctive that it might be made into a house.

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