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Southeast Corner of Sumter and Senate Streets

Site of the Rollin Salon

Built early 1800s

James Gregg
1814?-1852?

Montague family
1852?-1972

Sen. George McIntyre
1872-1872

Katherine "Katie" Rollin
1872-1875

Demolished 1921

  • Rollin sisters' residence, 1872. Image courtesy Library of Congress

    Rollin sisters' residence, 1872. Image courtesy Library of Congress

From at least 1872 until 1875, but perhaps earlier, this residence served as the home of the Rollin sisters, founders of the first South Carolina chapter of the American Woman Suffrage Association. Charlotte, Katherine, and Louisa Rollin regularly hosted their oldest sister, Frances Rollin, and her husband, Representative William J. Whipper, at the "Rollin Salon," as well as many other Republican members of the Reconstruction era legislature. Their influence on South Carolina politics became nationally known due to the publication of two salacious articles in the New York Sun and New York Herald in 1871. Of the sisters, Charlotte "Lottie" Rollin was the most politically active, having argued as early as 1869 for suffrage in front of the South Carolina House of Representatives. To learn more about the Rollins, visit Columbia City of Women, a partnership between Historic Columbia and the Women's Rights Empowerment Network.

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