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Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist Home, July 2012
Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House is located in South Carolina
Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House
Location in South Carolina
Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House is located in the United States
Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist House
Location in the United States
Location 1713 Wayne St., Columbia, South Carolina
Area less than one acre
Built 1895 (1895)
Architectural style American Four-Square
MPS Segregation in Columbia, South Carolina MPS
NRHP reference No. 07001083
Added to NRHP October 5, 2007

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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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