This is the former home of one of the largest slave merchants in the US before the Civil War. Armistead and Franklin was the name of the company. Today the building houses a museum about slavery, complete with restored slave cells in the basement.
@Tom Kershaw If you're thinking of getting one, get one now - they have now discontinued all but the "Jetsetter" version (which was the nicest of the three versions anyway - better construction with a metal shell instead of all plastic). They may be planning on killing them off soon - who knows. They're also quite reasonable now- the Jetsetter is $225 on B&H's website. Get one, play with it a bit, then shop on Ebay for one of the Russian glass lenses they made for it. I paid about $100 for the 90mm lens, which is what I've been using. Glass-wise, it's on a par with anything German or Japanese. I shot one image with the sun in the frame, coming through the trees directly into the lens - no flare. The plastic 90mm is acceptable in quality - the 58mm plastic is marginal. There is also a 117mm glass lens, which I also have, but I've shot almost this entire series using the glass 90mm.
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