Defined by the difficulty of the work, not the age of the building.
Charleston Brothers Construction takes on work that is genuinely hard to do well, heritage restoration and modern building alike. The standard is identical either way: understand the structure, choose the right method, coordinate carefully, execute with control.
We filter out commodity, lowest-bid work. That filter is what protects the craft, and it is what every client of ours is actually buying: the judgment to do the difficult thing correctly.
The company is led by Casey Bearsch, an architecture-trained builder, technologist, and preservation-focused contractor. He diagnoses what is happening behind the wall before specifying a repair, and he holds new construction to the same discipline.
The lineage runs by descent from Anderson Lumber Company, documented in Charleston in 1890, from supplying the Lowcountry's building materials to restoring the buildings those materials made. We are not a company that dates to 1890. We are a family that does, and we build like it.
The record is independent of us. The Charleston Museum's photograph collection holds a streetscape from around 1900 documenting the Anderson Lumber Company's lumber yard in the city, and Samuel Pickens Anderson's built work still stands on Sullivan's Island. The lineage runs by descent; the buildings and the archives carry the proof.
Streetscape and lumber yard record: The Charleston Museum, Photograph Collection, Ashley Avenue, object MK 10381, c. 1900. The Ark photograph: family archive.