South Carolina State Hospital Site
DECEMBER 2008
Located in the heart of South Carolina’s capital city, this 178-acre site once operated as a city within a city for the state’s mentally ill. Containing two of Columbia’s most significant and visible historic landmarks, the Robert Mills-designed Asylum Building (circa-1828) and the Babcock Building (circa-1858), the site includes no fewer than ten additional structures eligible for local and national designation, as well as significant natural and archaeological resources. For sale through NAI Avant, the historic institutional campus has great potential for development, but must also be protected as one of our greatest local historic resources.
Interim Measures for Community Character Protection
DECEMBER 2008
City Council gave final reading approval on a text amendment that creates a new zoning overlay district called the CC (Community Character), which is designed to minimize the possibility of demolition and construction activity drastically or negatively affecting the existing character of a residential community that is in the process of pursuing a design preservation overlay. Neighborhoods include Sherwood Forest, Forest Hills, Whaley Street, Cottontown, Hollywood/Rose Hill, Shandon, and Heathwood.
Moving the Historic Mance House
MARCH 2008
Once the home of no fewer than five presidents of Allen University, this building formerly stood at the corner of Pine and Hampton streets. Deemed as a contributing structure within the National Register of Historic Places-listed Waverly District, the Mance House was relocated within the historic community in order to accommodate a new dormitory at Allen University.