Wed, Oct 15
|American College of the Building Arts
Tour of the American College of the Building Arts
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
American College of the Building Arts, 639 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
About the event
October 15 -- Fellowship Opportunity. Tour of the American College of the Building Arts. 1:30 p.m. 639 Meeting Street, Charleston, 29402. ((843) 577-5245. Our hosts will be General Broadwater and Alex English who spoke to us back in June. We were all enthralled by the program at the ACBA and now we get an opportunity to see the students and budding artisans at work. As you know, the ACBA educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster exceptional craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment and understanding of the world’s architectural heritage through a liberal arts education. It offers programs in architectural carpentry, blacksmithing, classical architecture and design, architectural stone carving, plaster, and timber framing. It offers a 4-year program where educational methods are rooted in the medieval guild system,. Training crafts people to master a trade and teach it too. Some say they don’t make it the…