Mann-Simons Cottage

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Mann-Simons Cottage
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Mann-Simons Cottage, September 2012
34°0′42″N 81°2′4″W / 34.01167°N 81.03444°W / 34.01167; -81.03444
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1875 (1875)
Architectural style	Columbia Cottage
NRHP reference No.	73001726^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 23, 1973

Mann-Simons Cottage is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built around 1850, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, cottage style frame house on a raised basement. The front façade features a porch supported by four Tuscan order columns. It was the antebellum home of a substantial free black Columbia family.^[2]^[3]

The house now serves as a museum, with tours offered six days a week.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Bernard V. Kearse (March 1973). "Mann-Simons Cottage" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
^ "Mann-Simons Cottage, Richland County (1403 Richland St., Columbia)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-01-07.