Here’s a spooky-looking mansion that’s somewhere in South Carolina. Send your best guess of what it is to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our May 8 image, “Lots of glass,” might have been too easy since almost 20 alert readers responded. (But maybe it’s good to have an easy one, every now and then. This week’s might prove to be tough.)
The photo shows the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Congratulations to everyone who identified it, including Jane Hart Lewis and Barry Wingard, both of Florence, Mary Louise Resch of West Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Taft Matney of Mauldin; Karen Owens, Donna McGreevy and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; Wayne Beam of North Myrtle Beach; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Faith Line of Anderson; Russ Griffith of McCormick; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Debra Adams of Chesterfield; Elaine Huff-Lowe of Inman; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; and Kevin Mertens of Greenville.
Graf told us this about the center:”When the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center was built nearly two decades ago, it was deliberately designed small to make its cost more amenable to the city of Columbia, Richland and Lexington counties, and Richland District One which funded it. In fact, the two back walls are purposely non-load-bearing so the exhibit hall could be expanded over the back parking lot.
“Today, it is by far the smallest among the city’s competitors for conventions in the Southeast, with 23,700 square feet of exhibit space and 33,400 square feet of ballroom/meeting space. By contrast, the Charleston Area Convention Center has 77,000 square feet of exhibit space and 73,000 square feet of meeting space, while Greenville’s suburban TD Convention Center has a whopping 280,000 square feet of exhibit space and 90,000 square feet of meeting space. Despite its size, however, the convention center has been successful, increasing the number of visitors almost every year.”
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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