Rate Charleston, the capitol of West Virginia.

City pop: 52,000
Metro pop: 306,000

Photos courtesy of DallasTexan



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I like Charleston a lot. But I think it's skyline is pretty dull.

6/10

Doesn't exactly blow be away, but not so bad considering the city has only 300'000 people. In the background I can see a building with a gold dome that looks nice nice - shame it doesn't sit in the city centre with those other highrises. The tower with the pyramid roof looks good. 4/10

The building with the gold dome is the West Virginia state capitol.

5/10

just because of its size.

4.5 nothing much.

Buildings look ok, but a few buildings on a street dont make a skyline.

4/10

...its a boring skyline...

4.5/10

hmmm.....not to good....4/10

5/10

Despite what all the naysayers here say... I think Charleston, WV has a rather impressive skyline for its size. It also has great natural beauty.

Charleston has that nice, glassy Laidley and superb older skyscrapers as well. It's truly an urban gem in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia.

6

MMMMM 5

2.5/10. BLAH

The Capitol of my spouse's home state...I like Charleston. For it's size..not bad. heck my city is larger in pop. but hurts compared to the skyline.

6.5 When i saw charleston in person, i was actually suprised at how good the skyline was for the "pop". But now i come to find out the metro pop is like 300,000! But still, the skyline in decent for the pop and its in a very nice location.

You guys know that these photos are of Birmingham, Alabama and not Charleston, West Virginia, right?

hahaha i saw this thread first time now and i immediately saw
that there is something wrong!

Lmichigan is rite!

wake up ppl!!! that is Birmigham , Alabama :hilarious

What the hell, I thought I'd take the liberty of posting the most Northern of the Southern cities and the most Southern of the Northern cities. ;) Keep in mind that Charleston's skyline is exceptional for a population of 52,000! I like to refer to it as Robert C. Byrd's cum stain. BTW, this is a double post, I forgot to add the poll--I give it a 10 ;)

CHARLESTON, WV

First just a rundown of downtown's tallest buildings before posting the skyline pics...

1. BB&T Square/340 ft/18/1976
2. Bank One Center/323 ft/18/1969
3. West Virginia Capitol/292 ft/1932
4. Huntington Square/266 ft/17/1969
5. Laidley Tower/22/1985
6. Kanawha Valley Building/238 ft/20/1929
7. Dow Chemical Building/207 ft/1954
8. United Center/205 ft/12/1984
9. Charleston Marriott Town Center/175 ft/16
10. Union Building/169 ft/13/1911

Looking South down Capitol Street downtown towards Bank One Center.
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Downtown Charleston at night from Fort Hill...Huntington Square is the patriotic tower in the center.
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Charleston from Sunset Drive in 1998. This was taken at the beginning of many downtown renaissance projects.
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The trolley in Capitol Street.
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Another breathtaking night view ;)
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View from the Huntington Bank parking deck.
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Yeehaw!!!
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5.0/10
Nice city, but where are skyscrapers/churches/tall buildings?

For a city with a city population of almost 60,000 and a metro population of over 300,000 people, the skyline is quite impressive. Especially at night, infact the population would be more, but so many people are moving into smaller towns outside of Charleston for cheaper home prices. They are considering merging the 2 largest cities in WV and making them one huge metropolitan area, they would merge Charleston and Huntington and give them a population of over 600,000 people.

Nice city .. but boring skyline

6.5/10

not much of a skyline but the city seems to have held up well over the years ... looks cozy but this is a skyline thread and for a city of that size ... and west virginia isn't exactly a hot spot in terms of population growth or commercial activity ... it's not bad at all, kind of pretty in a really low key way

Looks half-bad. I give it a 5.5/10.

Skyline seems to be average, but we need more pics ;)
5,5/10

4/0, not much to see...

5.5/10

4.5/10

6/10 50000pop?

6.5 When i saw charleston in person, i was actually suprised at how good the skyline was for the "pop". But now i come to find out the metro pop is like 300,000! But still, the skyline in decent for the pop and its in a very nice location.

8/10- nicely developed for it's pop. i actually like it 'cause it reminds me of a 100 x's smaller bogota (colombia).

i don't like it...is boring..5/10

I like Charleston, but it's not really a skyline city.

About a 4.5! There is no skyline really.

6.5

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6/10

Yawn ill give it a 3 and thats being nice....

Here is a pano of Charleston:

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/waccamatt/uk%20trip/chas%20wv%20pano%20jpeg.JPG

2/10, Honolulu has a population in the 300,000s (399,000) to be exact and the skyline looks 50 times better to this city with similar population.

4.5 i can hardly see buildings.

7/10

2/10, Honolulu has a population in the 300,000s (399,000) to be exact and the skyline looks 50 times better to this city with similar population.

To be fair, Charleston's population is like 50 or 60 thousand with a metro in the 300 thousands, whereas Honolulu's city population is 399 000 and the metro is almost 1 million.

Anyway, the skyline isn't that impressing so I'm only giving it a 5/10, but damn if that isn't a pretty little city. It's neat how it seems to hug the river so much.

4/10

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5/10

buildings are small

6/10.

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5/10

:redx: 1 pic it not enough.

7. Regards.

6/10

5/10

I think the 300k is a very giving number. Even with that number the city population is only 50k. The skyline is decent for that size. 7/10

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6/10 but not bad for a small town.

6/10

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