Fackeln im Sturm - Drehorte

Description				House of Nicholas Fabray, Charleston, SC
Filming Location				outside: 20 South Battery, Charleston, SC inside: unknown
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Episode 01, scene 15, 17, 29 Episode 04, scene 14

Movie: street, Fabray's house to the left Real: South Battery, same angle of view © GSV

Movie: Fabray's house, outside Real: 20 South Battery © GSV

The view over South Battery at the upper pictures runs down to East Bay Street in the background which runs along Charleston Harbor. To the right (opposite the houses) road side is a public green space.

The estate on South Battery 20 was used for exterial filmings as the house of Nicholas Fabray. Two differend angles were used, a total of the unaltered building, and shots on the veranda with a front door prop to the left.

20 South Battery Google Maps

The interior filming were done in another and still unknown building.

Location overview "Fabray-Haus"

Lower oart: outside filming (only street, veranda stairs, veranda and front door prop). Upper parts: inside floor plan, ground floor with hall, parlor, dining room (separated from parlor with sliding doors), stairs, upper floor with corridor, Madeline's room, Nicholas' sitting room and bed room.

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House Of James Huntoon

Description				House of James and Ashton Huntoon, Charleston, SC
Filming location				26 South Battery, Charleston, SC
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Episode 05, scene 09, 29, 30 Episode 06, scene 02, 06, 09, 10, 12

Film: Hntoon's house, outside Real: 26 South Battery © GSV

There are no picturss from the inside of this building.

The estate on 26 South Battery was used as the house of James and Ashton Huntoon, outside and inside filming, as well as the secession celebration in the streets in front of the house. For the scene during election time (the cockade dealer in front of the house), the greens ob the other side of the streets (Battery Park) was hidden by a house front backdrop.

26 South Battery Google Maps

Location Overview "Huntoon-Haus Charleston"

Lower plan: Ground floor with veranda, dining room (right), hall, parlor (left), stairs. Upper plan: bedroom (left center), guest room (for Brett, upper left).

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Cotton Mill "Hazard & Main"

Description				Cotton mill "Hazard & Main", Charleston, outside
Filming location				28 State Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 04, scene 09

Movie: Baumwollspinnerei, außen Real: 28 State Street, Charleston, SC (background)

Movie: facades opposite side Real: State Street, Charleston, SC

The scene with Orry and Brett at the cotton mill "Hazard & Main" was filmed at State Street in Charleston. For the cotton mill, a storage building at 28 State Street, intersecting Queens Street, was propped up with a ramp and sign.

28 State Street Google Maps

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Public Park In Charleston

Description				Public park in Charleston, SC
Filming locatin				Washington Park and Fireproof Building, Charleston, SC
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Episode 05, scene 32 Episode 11, scene 26

Movie: Speech from the balcony, 1860 real: Fireproof Building, street view, 100 Meeting Street

The "Fireproof Building" was erected in 1827 as a fireproof storage facility for documents behind exceptionally thick walls and is now the oldest building of this kind in the U.S. It served as location background for Huntoon's secession speech, but on the nirrored side offside to the street, opening to Washington Park.

Movie: in the park real: Fireproof Building and the obelisk, 1910

In this historical picture of 1910, the park side of the Fireproof Building can be seen together with the obelisk reminding of the Civil War (!) and the bust of Henry Timrod. The obelisk appears twice, first in the scene depictured above with Billy and the officers leaving the place (visible only the obelisk's base), and then many (scripted) years later when Rafe Beaudeen again tries to get Madeline for him (picture below). The characteristical wall surrounding the park is also visible in both scenes.

Movie: in the park Aerial view © Google Maps, Fireproof Building upper right,
obelisk und and parts of the wall lower left

At the scene mentioned first, Billy and the officers are passing another base of a memorial. This may be has been the still damaged statue of William Pitt, that was put into a museum in 1985 and replaced by a bronce statue of George Washington. The whole green space is named after him as "Washington Park", situated in Charleston between Broad Street, Meeting Street and Chalmers Street.

Washington Park Google Maps

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Street Scene On Election Day 1860

Description				A street in Charleston, SC
Filming location				64 - 68 Church Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 06, scene 03, 05

Movie: street scene on election day 1860 real: 64 - 68 Church Street © GSV

Movie: street scene on election day 1860 real: 64 Church Street © GSV

This part of Church Street in the Historic District of Charleston, SC was backdrop to the street scene on election day 1860, where a mob went after Union officer Billy Hazard.

Church Street Google Maps

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Boarding House Of Ms. Shoup

Description				Simple ladies home, Charleston, SC
Filming location				Heim House, 1320 Carroll Avenue, Angelino Heights , Los Angeles, CA
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Episode 10, scene 15, 22 Episode 11, scene 12, 27, 28, 29 Episode 12, scene 33

Movie: Ms. Shoup's boarding house, outside Real: Heim House, outside

Movie: stair base real: stair base

Movie: der parlor Real: the parlor

Dated to 1887, the wood paneles house the the playful bay windows and small towers and the green facade inlets is situated at the Angelino Heights of Los Angeles, CA and is in private ownership. It was built in vicotorian style together with other houses of the neighbourhood by James B. Mayer, owner of the Southern Pacific Transfer Truck Company. It is named "Heim House" today after his second owner, the brewery grand master Ferdinand A. Heim. The neighbourhood is still essentially in historic stadium and entered the National Historic Register in 1976, the Heim House itself did so in 2003.

Heim House, Carroll Avenue 1320 Google Maps

Location Overview "Boarding House Of Ms. Shoup"

Ground floor: entrance, hall (lower), stairs, visitor parlor (upper)

Upper floor: Madeline's room (the room of Mrs. Wescott is one story above that)

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Customs house

Description				Customs house, Charleston, SC
Filming location				South Carolina Society Hall, 72 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 11, scene 25

Film: Customs house 1865 real: South Carolina Society Hall, 72 Meeting Street © GSV

The entrance portal and the great room of the South Carolina Society Hall was filming location for the scene with Elkanah Bent meeting a guns dealer in Charleston of 1865. The building on 72 Meeting Street was erected in 1804 and expanded in 1825, with the porticus attached to it. It is used until today by the South Carolina Society and is not open to the public.

The historic picture of 1915 shows the situation at Meeting street with St. Michael's (see below) church a short way to the North.

72 Meeting Street Google Maps

Location Overview "Customs House Charleston"

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St. Michaels Church

Description				Church steeple, Charleston, SC
Filming location				St. Michaels Church, Meeting Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 10, scene (15) Episode 11, scene (25)

Movie: St. Michaels Church, Charleston Real: St. Michaels Church, 80 Meeting Street,
Charleston, SC © GSV

The episcopal church of St. Michaels at Meeting Street was built starting in 1752. The motive of the well-known bright-white church steeple is used as several openings to scenes playing in Charleston. A street scene in view of the church is not present (probably because of it's location at the intersection of zwi big streets).

Meeting / Broad Street Google Maps

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Town house Of Forbes LaMotte

Description				Haus of Forbes LaMotte, Charleston, SC
Filming location				outside: 14 Legare Street, Charleston, SC inside: unknown
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Episode 05, scene (31)

Movie: town house of Forbes LaMotte, outside Real: 14 Legare Street © GSV

Only the gate and street front of this house is shown in the movie, when Ashton entering it to see her lover Forbes LaMotte. The inside shooting (a bedroom) cannot be related to a specific building.

This is a historic picture of the entrance in 1910, the style of the gate then called "Charleston Gate".

14 Legare Street Google Maps

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Church Street, St. Philips church, and Dock Street Theater

Description				A street in Charleston, SC
Filming location				140 - 150 Church Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 07, scene 18 Episode 09, scene (35) Episode 10, scene 19, 21 Episode 11, scene (13), (24), 30 Episode 12, scene (03), 21, (32)

            Movie: Charleston, celebrations in the streets                      Real: St. Philips church (background), 146 Church Street,
                                                                                                                    Dock Street Theater (front left), Hugenot church
                                                                                                                                         (to the right)

The episcopal church of St. Philips, built 1836 to 1850, sits in the relatively traffic-free area of the historic downtown of Charleston, SC. Some street scenes were filmed here, as the secession celebration in 1860 with Ashton locating there her lover Forbes LaMotte (specifically at the iron fence to the right in front of the Hugenot church built in today's fashion in 1845).

Movie: Charleston after the war, 1865 Real: lower houses left to the church

The reality picture shows St. Philips church and to the left some narrower and wood paneled houses, being the background of Charles riding in to take his son after the war. As to be seen with the church steeple, this scene is located at Church Street between the church and the Dock Street Theater.

Chuch Street and St. Michaels church Google Maps

Movie: Charleston, Miles Colbert's law office Real: Church Street, looking North

The old reality picture shows the Dock Street Theater to the left (also see above). To the left of it, the plate for Colbert's office was affixed to the wall and shown in associated openings. In the background, the church steeple of St. Philips as well as the sharp steeples of the hugenot church can be seen again.

Dock Street Theater (today 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC) is the last hotel in original ante-bellum shape in Charleston. It was built in 1809 as Planter's Hotel, the colums at the entrance and cast iron fenced balcony were added in 1855. As famous as it was before the war, it fell in disrepair thereafter until the city remodeled it in the 1930s and gave it the name of a former theater at Queen Street (then Dock Street). In the movies, the portal, the entry hall and the stage tall are used for scenes in totally other cities (abolitionist gathering in Philadelphia of 1848, then Sam Green's courtesy to Virgilia, James Huntoon's secession speech in New Orleans of 1859, and the opening of the Confederate president's ball in the "Stockwood Hotel", Richmond, VA in 1861, see there respectively). The striking columns also can be seen in several street scenes or openings for scenes located in Charleston.

Church Street with Dock Street Theater and French Hugenot Church Google Maps

Movie: at the outer cemetery of St. Michaels Real: toombstone of John C. Calhoun,
in Charleston St. Philips Church West Cementry

The toombstone to be seen in fading daylight when Madeline crosses over the cemetery is the one of John C. Calhoun, situated in the outer West Cemetery of St. Philips, Church Street, Charleston, SC. Calhoun, one of the most outstanding politicians from South Carolina before the war, died on March 31st, 1850 and was buried on that outer part of the cemetery since his residence was in the suburbs and not in the town of Charleston itself. His wife on the other hand is buried under the same rule adjectant to the church.

Church Street Cemetery Google Maps

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Refugee Camp And Military Office, Charleston

Description				Madeline's refugee camp in Charleston Military office in Charleston
Filming location				Court and side entrance, Aiken-Rhett House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 10, scene 20 Episode 11, scene 09, 10, 23 Episode 12, scene 04

Movie: camp with gate entrance Real: Aiken-Rhett House, gate entrace

Movie: camp, building in the background Real: Aiken-Rhett House, viewed from the back yard

Movie: entrance to military bureau Real: Aiken-Rhett House, side entrance

Movie: at the stairs, military bureau Real: Aiken-Rhett House, stairs

The Aiken-Rhett House with its side buildings and the wall-enclosed back yard still exists in original fashion without being modernized. The estate is situated outside the historic area of Charleston and seems to be relatively neglected as seen from the outside, but exactly that appealed it for the scenes during war time. The refugee camp run by Madeline was placed into the backyard, with the thick treens and the wall creating a gloomy scenery all by itself, amplified by letting it rain.

The short scene with Rafe and Madeline at the military administration bureau in search for the kids been taken to work also was filmed in the Aiken-Rhett House. In this case, the side entrance and it's stairwell was used.

The Aiken-Rhett House was built in 1820 by merchant John Robinson. 1827, he sold it to William Aiken, Sr. In November of 1863, Confederate President Jefferson Davis spent some days with Governor William Aiken, Jr. in this house. For one year starting in 1864, it was used as headquarters of Confederate general Pierre G. T. Beauregard, commanding the District of South Carolina. Aiken's daughter and her husband, Major A. B. Rhett, continued to use the estate in 1892, and it is still in family ownership today.

Here an areal view, providing a good overview on the estate of the Aiken-Rhenn House (© Google Maps). The gate entrace to the backyard (movie: the refugee camp) is on the upper side. The side entrance (movie: military bureau) is to the left of the yellow main building besides the row of parked cars.

Aiken Rhett House, 48 Elisabeth Street Google Maps

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Swamps Near Charleston

Description				Swamps near Charleston
Filming location				Cypress Garden, Lowcountry Swamp, Charleston, SC
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Episode 04, scene 27

Movie: swamps near Charleston, SC Real: Cypress Garden, Charleston Lowcountry Swamp

A special attraction of Charleston are the large cypress trees standing in thewaters of Cypress Garden, also called Lowcountry Swamp. It was there where the flat of Aunt Bell Nin was built as a prop on historical templates. The city had so much pleasure on that work that it had the filming crew to leave it standing there, so that tourists could enjoy it for some years to come.

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Fort Sumter

Description				Fort Sumter, near Charleston, SC
Filming location				outside: Fort Sumter, near Charleston, SC inside: Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, SC
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Episode 06, scene 16, 38, 39

Movie: Fort Sumter, inside Real: Fort Moultrie, inside

Movie: Fort Sumter, guns gallery Real: Fort Moultrie, guns gallery

The views from the outside on Fort Sumter were filmed with the actual fort (today a museum) in the harbor entrance of Charleston, SC. The inside scenes with Billy Hazard and Major Anderson on the other hand were filmed at nearby Fort Moultrie, garding Charleston Harbor as well, The aerial view of Fort Moultrie shown above illustrates that Billy took his walk out from the walled-in powder magazine on the upper left to the open field below and then together with the major on a propped-up ladder up to the level at the outer wall and the guns.

The night scene with the firing at Fort Sumter also was filmed at Fort Moultrie. To be identified by the walled-in dirt hill to the left, the gun was used that was shown before in the background between Anderson and Billy. This gun is still in working conditions today and fired on special occasions.

The following parade scene, playing in Washington, D.C., was equally filmed at Fort Moultrie near Charleston, as to see with the church steeple behind the background wall. The other family houses around the church are hidden by clever camera positioning behind the wall and the dort palisade (that by itself might have been a backdrop).

Fort Sumter, near Charleston, SC Google Maps

Fort Multrie, Sullivans Island Google Maps

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Charleston, SC

Port city in South Carolina with 150,227 citizens (as of 2020), founded 1670 as Charles Town (after then English King Charles II.). The city quickly developed to a center of the slave trade. After the War of Independence it was renamed to Charleston in 1783 and was the capitol of the young state of South Carolina untio 1788. Fort Moultrie served effectively to defent the harbor entrace against attacks from the sea since 1776. In 1861, the firering on Fort Sumter, also in the harbor entrance, started the American Civil War, when the oppinion was spread especially by Charlestonians that the rights of the individual states were above those of the central government in Washington, finally leading to the secession of South Carolina in December of 1860.

After the war was lost, the importance of the city was in decline. Reconstruction facilitated money from northern occupiers for the most time. The earthquake on August 31st, 1886 destroyed one quarter of the town, being restored mostly just in the historic center. The youngest destructive impact had Hurricane Hugo, who in 1999 brought damage for about 2,8 billion Dollars in worth.

Since the 1930s, the Historic District in downtown Charleston was formed out with the goal to preserve as much historic structures as possible and to keep them in use, as private residence, as public building, or as a museum.

Here some authentic photographs of Charleston at war's end in 1865:

East Battery, the first house is burnt out South Battery, with a demolished gun in front

View from Circular Church Circular Church (with the scaffolding), Mills House
(burnt out), St.Michaels Church in the back

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