Civil rights history lives in this modest wooden house at 2025 Marion Street in Columbia, South Carolina — the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House. This modest, 1½-story wooden frame house was owned by Modjeska Monteith Simkins and is recognized as a historic place of the civil rights movement, formally named to the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 1994. The house sits on a narrow 50 ft by 172 ft lot on the west side of Marion Street, nearly one block north of Columbia Historic District II.
Take in the L-shaped plan, the side-gabled roof and the shed-roof front porch with its chamfered posts. The original wooden weatherboard siding still covers the exterior; the roof is finished with asphalt composition shingles. Originally built on clay brick piers, the open spaces were later filled with clay brick, and three interior brick chimneys with corbelling punctuate the roofline.
The upper half-story is used for storage, and the windows appear to be original: two double-hung, six-over-six windows on each side of the front wood-paneled door, which itself has a transom and sidelights. Notice the chamfered posts on the shed-roof porch and the three corbelled brick chimneys along the roofline.