Since Jan. 17, Harold's Cabin owner John Schumacher and his team have been welcoming guests to the renovated second story of the cozy restaurant that’s now dubbed The Pickled Beat, “a whimsical, speakeasy-esque lounge area.”

Starting Feb. 3 when the Charleston Place's Charleston Grill makes its return, new chef de cuisine Suze Castelloe will be leading the kitchen instead of longtime executive chef Michelle Weaver, who will transition to a new culinary ambassador role. 

The awards this year paid special attention to projects that found creative ways to preserve historic properties in the face of rising waters and increasingly severe flooding in the Lowcountry. 

Charles Duell, who founded the Middleton Place Foundation and has spent the last half-century helping preserve the Edmondston-Alston House, Middleton Place and other historic sites in Charleston, will receive a national honor from the American College of the Building Arts.