Women architects aren’t news today, but in the 1920s, they were. Yet, few people realize one of the state’s first women architects designed two well-known apartment buildings here in Columbia, the Belvedere at 206 Hitt St., and the Beverly at 211 Hitt St. Nelle E. Peters was the architect of the both of these 1927…
Month: August 2013
Great opportunity to own a historic home and schoolhouse
Here are two great ways to get a peek inside a historic home and a historic school-house. At 10 a.m. Saturday, August 17 2013, this former one-room school at 4713 Brown Station Road, Columbia, will go up for auction. Named the Keene School, the United Country’s website outlines its history as a former school-house and includes…