Marion Square
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Marion Square is located on Calhoun Street between King Street and Meeting Street. In the Spring and Fall, the Charleston City Paper hosts Movies in Marion Square. The Charleston Farmers Market also operates here on Saturdays between April and December. During the month of December, Marion Square is the city's official Christmas center, hosting the City of Charleston Christmas tree, a menorah, and a kinari.
During the warmer months, college students can be found sunbathing on the grass. As an indicator of the popularity of the park, one city council member in 2003 raised the question of whether students in the park were guilty of indecent exposure and snarling traffic in the area. Other council members did not agree and the issue has since died out.
The Embassy Suites hotel on the edge of Marion Square is the old Citadel building (the original campus of The Citadel).
The square is home to a variety of monuments:
- A statue of the famous South Carolinian John C. Calhoun, set in place in 1896
- The Holocaust Memorial, where a tallit (a jewish prayer shawl) missing one of its four tzitzit (knotted fringes on each corner of the shawl) is on the floor of an enclosed structure, resembling a cage
- A small obelisk
- The Rotary Fountain
- A tombstone-shaped item, containing limestone and seashells
