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Holiday House Tours
Guests are invited to see a variety of holiday decorations and experience past traditions at the Robert Mills House and the Hampton-Preston Mansion between Friday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Jan. 5. Tour guides will provide stories of holidays past in Columbia and discuss how families decorated and entertained during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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“Learning about holiday traditions that are still observed by families today helps us connect to the past and understand the origins of traditions we hold dear”
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Thursday, December 12th
6 — 7:30 p.m.
Renovation Rodeo | Hollywood Rose-Hill
TBD, Columbia, SC 29201
Palladium Members are invited to join Historic Columbia and Palladium for a tour of a newly renovated Hollywood-Rose Hill home! Presented by The Moore Company, the Renovation Rodeo series takes guests on tours of old homes and buildings in the Columbia area that have been refurbished and renovated while staying true...
Saturday, December 14th
8 — 11 a.m.
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
You’re invited to have breakfast with the jolly ole man himself!
Saturday, December 14th
5:30 — 9 p.m.
Candlelight Tours & Carriage Rides
1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Visit the decorated, candlelit halls of the Hampton-Preston Mansion and the Robert Mills House and go on a guided tour during our annual Candlelight Tours & Carriage Rides!
Sunday, December 15th
1 — 4 p.m.
Dollar Sunday | Woodrow Wilson Family Home
1705 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Every third Sunday of the month, residents of Richland and Lexington counties are invited to tour of one of Historic Columbia’s house museums for just $1 on Dollar Sunday! This month, visit the Woodrow Wilson Family Home, the nation's only museum dedicated to interpreting the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and South Carolina's only remaining presidential site.
Sunday, December 15th
2 — 3 p.m.
1100 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201
Since Columbia’s 1786 founding, the grounds of the South Carolina State House have grown from a 4-acre site bounded by Richardson (Main), Gervais, Assembly, and Senate streets into a 22-acre complex featuring 7 buildings and more than 30 monuments. South Carolinians have constructed, altered, and reconsidered this space for more than 230 years—and continue to do so today.
Wednesday, December 25th
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
1601 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201
In observance of the Christmas holiday, the last tour on Christmas Eve will be given at 11:30 a.m. and all house museums will be closed on Dec. 25. Tours will resume at regular hours on Thursday, Dec. 26. Offices will be closed on the 25th and 26th. Happy holidays from Historic Columbia!
Wednesday, January 1st
10 a.m. — 4 p.m.
Historic Columbia and all our properties will be closed on Wednesday, Jan 1, for New Year’s Day. The last tour will be given at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Tours will resume at regular hours on Thursday, Jan. 2.
Sunday, January 5th
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
Guests are invited to see a variety of holiday decorations and experience past traditions at the Robert Mills House and the Hampton-Preston Mansion between Friday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Jan. 5. Tour guides will provide stories of holidays past in Columbia and discuss how families decorated and entertained during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Thursday, January 9th
6 — 7:30 p.m.
Behind-the-Scenes Tour | Columbia Down Under
1332 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Back by popular demand, Historic Columbia's Behind-the-Scenes Tour series opens the doors to Columbia Down Under!
Friday, January 17th
6 — 8 p.m.
Historic Happy Hour: Speakeasy at Seibels House
1601 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201
Join Historic Columbia as we commemorate the enactment of Prohibition as Seibels House becomes a speakeasy for one night only!
Sunday, January 19th
1 — 4 p.m.
Dollar Sunday | Hampton-Preston Mansion & Gardens
1615 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
The third Sunday of the month, residents of Richland and Lexington counties are invited to tour of one of Historic Columbia’s house museums for just $1 on Dollar Sunday! This month, visit the Hampton-Preston Mansion.
Tuesday, January 28th
10:30 — 11:45 a.m.
75th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz
900 Senate St., Columbia, SC 29201
The SC Council on the Holocaust acknowledges and highlights International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by The United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, at this event on January 28, the 75th anniversary of the liberation. The event will remember the six million Jewish victims of...
Tuesday, January 28th
12 — 1 p.m.
Research Roundtable | Garden Updates for the Robert Mills Grounds
1601 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201
Join Historic Columbia for their monthly Research Roundtable from noon – 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Friday, February 7th
10 — 11:30 a.m.
Homeschool Friday | Columbia Civil Rights History
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
In appreciation of Black History Month we will learn more about the people who made lasting impressions on the lives of Columbians. Students will explore the legacies African Americans have made on both the physical and cultural landscape. By learning specifics of the Civil Rights pioneers who called Columbia home...
Friday, March 6th
10 — 11:30 a.m.
Homeschool Friday | International Women’s Day and Women’s Suffrage
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
To honor March as Women’s History Month and the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, students will learn about women’s suffrage and important women who lived and worked in Columbia. We will also learn about International Women’s Day and its connection with women’s suffrage. Students will examine what it...
City of Women Honoree
Modjeska Monteith Simkins
An unrelenting activist and advocate for racial and social equality, her civic engagement extended to health care, women’s rights and the environment. As a member of the leadership of the SC NAACP, Simkins joined with other activists to challenge South Carolina’s continued flouting of established law and was influential in the fight for equal pay for black teachers, the fight to end the all-white Democratic primary in South Carolina, and the fight to end segregation in public schools. SHE DID, so that we live in a more just society.
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Renovation Rodeo | Hollywood-Rose Hill
This Thursday, December 12, Palladium members are invited to explore a Tudor style house in Hollywood-Rose Hill from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Presented by The Moore Company, this latest installment of the Renovation Rodeo series will have members socializing in a 1935 home and learning how it was converted...
