This project is a restoration of a historic mansion, in downtown Columbia, for a local law firm. Located at 1727 Hampton Street in Columbia, South Carolina, the historic Lorick House is approximately seven blocks from the state capital and three blocks east of the central business district. The Lorick House property is comprised of approximately 1.27 acres and is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Lorick House was constructed beginning in the 1840s; in the late 1800s, alterations to the house included extending the portico to a full porch and the addition of elaborate woodwork and 12’ high ceilings throughout the foyer, double parlors, library, and dining room. The landscape includes many original plants and trees (magnolias and oaks) as well as other historic landscape features and open space.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private non-profit organization, recently received the Lorick House through its Gifts of Heritage program. The preservation of the Lorick House, which is significant to Columbia’s history and owned by one family for over 130 years, has been ensured by the placement of a perpetual conservation and preservation easement on the property by the National Trust
