Arsenal Hill's only survivor of 1865, the South Carolina Governor's Mansion, shows you white stucco, a flat roof and a central pavilion. This Federal style home, influenced by British Colonial plantations, shows its character in a white stucco exterior, a flat roof and a large central pavilion framing the main entrance. It originally served as faculty quarters for the Arsenal Academy, which together with the Citadel Academy in Charleston formed the South Carolina Military Academy (now The Citadel).
In February, 1865, the Arsenal was burned along with the city of Columbia by Sherman's forces; this structure was the only surviving building and became South Carolina’s executive mansion in 1868. On June 5, 1970, the building was registered with the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The house sits on a single city block, approached by a circular driveway that wraps around a fountain at the residence’s main entrance.
Inside, the mansion contains 15 rooms (excluding powder rooms, security and...). Picture magnolia, elm and oak trees filling the grounds around the circular driveway that wraps past the fountain at the mansion's entrance.