Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House

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Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist Home, July 2012
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Location1713 Wayne St., Columbia, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°0′27″N81°2′43″W / 34.00750°N 81.04528°W / 34.00750; -81.04528
Arealess than one acre
Built1895 (1895)
Architectural styleAmerican Four-Square
MPS Segregation in Columbia, South Carolina MPS
NRHP reference No. 07001083 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 5, 2007

Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House is a historic tourist home for African-American patrons located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1895, and is a two-story, frame American Foursquare style dwelling. It has a hipped roof and features a one-story wraparound porch. Mrs. Cornwell began operating her house as a tourist home during the 1940s. [2] [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1] A historical marker was erected in 2014. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Lindsay Crawford (July 2007). "Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  3. "Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist Home, Richland County (1713 Wayne St., Columbia)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  4. "Harriett Cornwell Tourist Home". Historical Marker Database. 2023. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Retrieved November 11, 2023.