SC State House Memorial 1847

The South Carolina State House is the building housing the government of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The building houses the South Carolina... more

by Lisa Wooten

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SC State House Memorial 1847

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Lisa Wooten

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The South Carolina State House is the building housing the government of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The building houses the South Carolina General Assembly and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Until 1971, it also housed the Supreme Court.[3] It is located in the capital city of Columbia near the corner of Gervais and Assembly Streets.

The State House is in the Greek Revival style; it is approximately 180 feet (55 m) tall, 300 feet (91 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide. It weighs more than 70,000 short tons (64,000 t) and has 130,673 square feet (12,140 m2) of space. The building's grounds are home to several monuments. On the north side, leading to the main entry,[11] is the Confederate Monument[12] which included a flagpole flying a traditional version of the Confederate battle flag until it was removed on 10 July 2015 by State Bill. The monument was established after a controversy during the state's 2000 presidential primary about the Confederate flag flying over the dome of the State House.[13] The flag, originally placed over the dome in 1962,[14] was moved to near the monument on July 1, 2000, after passage of the South Carolina Heritage Act of 2000 it was then removed from the grounds on 10 July 2015 and given to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. [15]

On the east side is the African-American History Monument, authorized by Act 457 of the General Assembly and unveiled on March 26, 2001.[16]

The grounds also include monuments to President George Washington, Revolutionary War Generals, the Palmetto Regiment of, the American-Mexican War, Wade Hampton III, Captain Swanson Lunsford, Confederate Women, U.S. Senators James F. Byrnes, Strom Thurmond and Benjamin Tillman, Dr. J. Marion Sims, and South Carolinian law enforcement officers killed while on duty. Wikipedia

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August 7th, 2015