Continued from Part 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Church and cemetery, across the street from the capital building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The State House grounds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just in case you forgot you were in the South.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Government Office Building behind the capital building

 

 

 

More state government office buildings

 

 

 

Slavery and civil rights monument on the capital grounds.  Very nicely done, IMO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So long from Columbia, SC

 

 

Looks ok, but I'll take Charleston... thanks.

Nice photos!

Nice pics.

 

Brings back some memories, I had to go there quite a bit, for my first project at SOHIO.  It was the test market and first place to a have "new" protype BP Convience store & detached procare station.  It was dead then to.

Nice copper dome on the capitol, and I like the cemetary and the memorial wall.

 

I actually choked on my coffee when I saw this:

 

But I really like this:

I've seen a lot of photos of this city. It's really coming together for a city of its size!

Dfly, you took some awesome shots of Columbia, in this thread and the first one.

 

I'm a native SC'er, having grown up in an area roughly halfway between Columbia and Charleston. We went to do our "big city" stuff in Columbia, so I have an affinity for the city. It's too bad that you didn't get to check out the hotspots of the city where most of the activity is: the Vista, the revitalized warehouse district downtown, just west of the CBD (and where the city's revitalization efforts have largely been concentrated for the past 20 years until farily recently), and Five Points, the urban village adjacent to USC. Hope you don't mind if I share some of my own photos of those two areas in particular, as well as some shots of some areas you didn't get to cover (and some that you did, from my own perspective):

 

SC State Museum

 

Steeple of St. Peter's Catholic Church, with the Strom Thurmond Federal Building behind it

 

The Apollo's Cascade sculpture fountain in the plaza between the Columbia Museum of Art and the Carolina First Bank building. It was under construction at the time dfly's photos were taken

 

 

 

Palmetto Candy & Tobacco Store in the Vista

 

EdVenture Children's Museum (largest children's museum in the Southeast), right next to the state museum

 

 

Hilton Columbia Center

 

 

Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center

 

 

 

(Adluh Flour Mill tower, a local landmark, to the right)

 

 

(terrace behind the convention center)

 

 

Pendleton Street parking garage, directly across from the convention center

 

Cool planted medians along Bull Street

 

 

Random shots in the Vista, mainly along Gervais and Lady Streets

 

 

(five story office/retail infill development coming to the site between these two buildings, and will incorporate the structure to the right)

 

 

 

(old Confederate Printing Plant, now houses a downtown Publix grocery store)

 

(supposedly the most-booked Hampton Inn in the chain)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(SC Bank and Trust HQ building)

 

Along Sumter Street

 

Memorial Park

 

 

 

Justice Square Townhomes directly across from Memorial Park

 

The Big Apple, former Jewish synagogue, now a small venue for events (receptions, etc.)

 

Looking south on Main towards the Statehouse

 

A few shots from Five Points

 

 

 

 

(The recently constructed linear fountain in Five Points in a median along Saluda Street; pics not mine. Fountain dyed green in first picture for the St. Pat's Day festival that was coming up)

 

 

 

Another local landmark, the "Busted Plug" sculpture fountain

 

Trustus Theatre, an independent professional theatre group

 

Trio of towers from Boyd Plaza in front of the Columbia Museum of Art

 

From the Statehouse steps

 

From the Statehouse grounds, with statue of Gov. Ben Tillman in the foreground

 

Same shot at night

 

First Citizens Bank HQ tower at night

 

Small park/plaza beside First Citizens Bank HQ tower

 

 

The Colonial Center, largest arena in SC (18K seats), home of the USC Gamecocks basketball programs

 

Skyline from the West Columbia Riverwalk, just across the Congaree River in West Columbia

 

Congaree River Bridge

 

Shots from Finlay Park, the city's signature urban park

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richland County Public Library

 

I'll end with some shots of historic structures downtown:

 

Palmetto Building (undergoing conversion to become a boutique Sheraton Hotel)

 

Robert Mills House

 

Hampton-Preston Mansion

 

DeBruhl-Marshall House

 

Seibels House

 

Other historic houses

 

Washington Street Methodist Church

 

Historic First Baptist Church, where the SC Secession Convention was held (the event that started it all)

 

First Presbyterian Church

 

 

Parting shot: the full skyline, as seen from the junctions of I-77 and I-26 (not my pic)