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About Woodrow Wilson Family Home & Gardens
The Museum of the Reconstruction Era is housed in South Carolina's only remaining presidential site, the 1871 Italian villa-style residence of "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson. It is one of the nation's only museums dedicated to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Visitors can explore 21st-century exhibits, interactive technologies, and guided tours that interpret Columbia's racial, social, and political landscape of the 1870s. The site also features gardens inspired by Victorian landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing, divided into a formal pleasure garden and a working backyard.
On the coast
Serving Columbia, SC
The Museum of the Reconstruction Era is housed in South Carolina's only remaining presidential site, the 1871 Italian villa-style residence of "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson. It is one of the nation's only museums dedicated to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Visitors can explore 21st-century exhibits, interactive technologies, and guided tours that interpret Columbia's racial, social, and political landscape of the 1870s. The site also features gardens inspired by Victorian landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing, divided into a formal pleasure garden and a working backyard.