Columbia - Historic Columbia Foundation House Tours

The Hampton-Preston Mansion and Garden in Columbia was the city home of General Wade Hampton, a Confederate leader. The house was built about 1818 and was occupied by Union officers in 1865. The restored mansion is furnished with Hampton and Preston family pieces.

Celia Mann, a slave who acquired her freedom in Charleston, walked to Columbia and purchased this cottage in around 1850. Celia and her descendents owned the house until 1970. The cottage reflects the entrepreneurial spirit of free blacks, the Mann-Simons family were bakers, tailors, seamstresses, and musicians, and in the 20th century, educators.

Robert Mills House in Columbia is a restored mansion which was built in 1823. The house was designed by South Carolina's most famous architect, Robert Mills.

The collection in the house displays decorative arts of the early 19th century, including American Federal, English Regency, and French Empire pieces.

The Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home in Columbia is the only house the Wilson family ever owned. The Tuscan-village-style home was built in 1872 and features period pieces from the 1850s to the 1870s.