The top of this South Carolina building is undergoing some serious repair if you take the amount of scaffolding surrounding it as an indicator. Where is it? Any other information you can provide? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Old painting,” showed a painting of the University of South Carolina’s Horseshoe around 1850 by an unknown artist. See the original.
Congrats to those who identified the painting: Pat Keadle of Wagener; Jay Altman, Elizabeth Jones and Dave Wilson, all of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Randy Herald of Lexington; and Carrington Wingard of Florence.
Herald, who once lived on Pendleton Street near the Horseshoe, shared: “That has to be the Horseshoe at the center of the USC campus. They built a wall around it to try to protect the city of Columbia from those houligans, but students are still escaping to this day. And Five Points didn’t even exist yet.”
Send us a mystery. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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