Rear entrance to the mansion known as the "Robert Mills House" in Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina

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The building was designed by Mills, famous as the designer of the Washington Monument in the nation's capital. But the owner was Ainsley Hall, a wealthy Columbia merchant who died during its construction in 1823. The home was for many years part of the campus of the Columbia Theological Seminary, which moved out of Columbia in 1960. It was acquired by the Historic Columbia Foundation, restored, and opened as a museum in 1967.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.