The house is located at the northwest corner of West Broadway and North Glenwood Avenue. It was built at the turn of the century on a three-acre lot in Garth’s Addition to Columbia which was approved on 9 June 1899.

This block of North 8th Street was subdivided by Nathaniel Warfield Wilson (1811-1890) as Wilson’s First Addition on July 1, 1854.

The I-house is one of the most recognizable folk architectural styles in the United States, representing a shift toward formality and social standing in rural and small-town settings.

Candle Light Lodge located at 1406 Business Loop 70 West, originally known as the Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel, is a significant surviving example of an early hotel/motel built in 1929 in a specific response to burgeoning automobile travel.

Today at the northwest corner of Broadway and 10th Street stands the first floor of the O’Rear building. The building was named for Miss Emma O’Rear (1824-1898), who had a residence and millinery shop on this corner before the O’Rear building was constructed around 1895. It originally was an impressive three-story building and a classic example of the brick commercial structures that defined Columbia’s business district during the late 1800s.

The Wright Brothers Mule Barn, also known as the Rader Packing Company building and the Diggs building, was built by William Lee Wright (1864-1923) and his brother, Basel Crocket Wright (1872-1937) in 1919-1920 at the corner of what is now Hinkson Avenue and Fay Street.

The Elkins House is one of the last in a row of stately 19th century houses that once graced North 10th Street between Columbia College and Columbia’s central business district. The house was built around 1882 for Samuel H. and Isabel Smith Elkins, and it remained in their family for close to half a century.

This Second Empire style house at 2011 N. Country Club Drive was built in 1883 for Dr. Andrew Walker McAlester (1841-1922). It is one of the few houses of this style in Columbia.