Woodrow Wilson House, Sc is a photograph by Skip Willits which was uploaded on July 28th, 2017.
Woodrow Wilson House, Sc
The nation's only museum dedicated to interpreting the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and South Carolina's only remaining presidential site,... more
by Skip Willits
Title
Woodrow Wilson House, Sc
Artist
Skip Willits
Medium
Photograph - Epson Lustre Paper
Description
The nation's only museum dedicated to interpreting the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and South Carolina's only remaining presidential site, this distinctive circa-1871 Italian villa-style residence was home to a 14-year-old boy named "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson. The site is operated as a museum by Historic Columbia and explores the racial, social and political landscape of Columbia and Richland County from 1865 through 1877.
Since 1933 this property has operated as an historic house museum celebrating the life of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. Young Tommy Wilson's parents built this home in 1871 with the intent of remaining in Columbia. However, in 1874, Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson received a new posting and he and his family moved to Wilmington, N.C. Closed in 2005 due to structural issues, Columbia’s Woodrow Wilson Family Home has undergone a multiphase, comprehensive rehabilitation and reopened to the public on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Following scientific paint analysis, it is a house whose colors Wilson would have known well. In the wake of restorative carpentry, its rooms now flow as they did when new in 1871.
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July 28th, 2017
