Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House Explained

Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House
Location:	1713 Wayne St., Columbia, South Carolina
Coordinates:	34.0075°N -81.0453°W
Architecture:	American Four-Square
Added:	October 5, 2007
Area:	less than one acre
Mpsub:	Segregation in Columbia, South Carolina MPS
Refnum:	07001083

Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House is a historic tourist home for African-American patrons located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1895, and is a two-story, frame American Foursquare style dwelling. It has a hipped roof and features a one-story wraparound porch. Mrs. Cornwell began operating her house as a tourist home during the 1940s.^{[1] [2]}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. A historical marker was erected in 2014.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lindsay Crawford. Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 2007 . pdf . 2014-01-07.
2. Web site: Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist Home, Richland County (1713 Wayne St., Columbia). National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 2014-01-07.
3. Web site: November 11, 2023 . Harriett Cornwell Tourist Home . 2023 . live . Historical Marker Database . https://web.archive.org/web/20231112044218/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=123485 . 12 November 2023.