Gibbes Museum of Art

James Shoolbred Gibbes left $100,000 to the Carolina Art Association for a proper exhibition building. His nieces and nephews contested the will, and on December 6, 1901, the New York Supreme Court declared the gift valid. The Association hired Frank Pierce Milburn, who designed a Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street; it opened April 11, 1905. Today the museum holds over 10,000 works, principally American, many connected to Charleston or the South. The ground floor is free to enter.