Sales Associate, Julian V. Brandt Real Estate

Julian V. Brandt Real Estate - Founded 1917

 

John Shannon moved the the Charleston area permanently from New York in 2015.  In 2017 he studied for and passed the South Carolina Real Estate License Test and joined Julian V. Brandt Real Estate as a Sales Associate.

 

Prior to entering the real estate field, John was for 20 years Executive Director of St. George's Society of New York, a private foundation dating back to the colonial period providing charitable assistance to elderly and infirm persons from the United Kingdom and the British Commonwelath residing in the New York metropolitan area.  During his tenure the Society's fundraising grew significantly, enabling it to provide more services and financial aid to itsgrowing number of beneficiaries. 

 

A 1977 graduate of Trinity College in Connecticut, where he received a BA in History, John was a credit officer with The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and The Chase Manhattan Bank for 11 years.  Following that, he worked briefly at Adams & Rinehart, a financial PR firm, then went on to become Executive Vice President of Alex Donner Entertainment Corp. 

 

John's earliest years were spent in a Federal-period townhouse in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC.  Later the family moved to Paris, France, where they lived in 18th and 19th century buildings.  In New York, the Shannons lived in a brownstone townhouse.  He has spent most of his life living in old buildings. A major attraction of Charleston fot him is its incredible quantity of beautiful and historic architecture.  Other attractions are the people, the climate and the culture.

2010 - present

Community and Social Volunteer Activity

 

• American College of the Building Arts (Trustee).

• Wadmalaw Island Land Planning Committee (member).

• St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (vestyman and Clerk)

• The American Priory of the Order of St. John (Genealogist).

• American Friends of St. George's Chapel and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (Secretary).

• Several Patriotic and Lineage Societies including: New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati (Secretary); Society of Colonial Wars (New York, New Jersey, Washington, North Carolina and Florida); and Society of First Families of South Carolina (Treasurer).

• College of Arms Foundation (President).

• Guest speaker/panelist specializing in English heraldry.

• The Preservation Society of Charleston (member).

• Historic Charleston Foundation (member).

2010 - present