One of three new apartment buildings that will complete the second phase of development at Charleston’s Courier Square, this 20-unit residential block surrounded by single-family houses is carefully designed to fit in with the scale and character of its neighbors. Ground-floor apartments open directly from residential St. Philip Street and from a new landscaped mews on the east side of the building; upper-level residences share a lobby off a new pocket park to the south. To break down the building’s scale, two pedimented three-story pavilions are linked by classically-inspired stacked porches; the fourth floor is set back to give passersby the impression of a three-story building. Facades are clad in clapboard with operable double-hung windows and shutters in the manner of the historic neighboring houses. Since the small apartment building as a type never took hold in Charleston during the twentieth century, this building and its neighbors will offer apartment dwellers looking to live in one of the city’s historic neighborhoods an appealing alternative to flats in older single-family houses or a unit in one of the large apartment buildings now springing up north of the Lower Peninsula.