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The little house at 113 Calhoun Street has been through a lot. It's scarred exterior and boarded-up windows tell a compelling story. Nestled in a historic neighborhood in downtown Charleston, the modest wood-frame home survived the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886, still the most severe quake ever recorded east of the Mississippi. One hundred years later, it survived the wrath of Hurricane Hugo. In between those two cataclysmic events, it survived countless lesser storms, many periods of flooding, and at least one fire.