Still Hopes, Historic building in South Carolina, United States
Still Hopes is a two-story brick Georgian Revival mansion built in 1910 in West Columbia, South Carolina. Its front facade has a two-story flat-roofed portico on paired Ionic columns, and a one-story ornamented wraparound porch runs along the side. The red brick was made by Guignard Brick Works.
Still Hopes was built in 1910 as the residence of Gabriel Alexander Guignard (1860–1926), using red brick made by Guignard Brick Works. In 1977 the mansion was expanded and renovated to house an Episcopal retirement community, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Still Hopes keeps an Episcopal chapel and chaplain on site and follows the Episcopal tradition, yet it has always been open to residents of any faith. The name recalls the Guignard family estate; Gabriel Alexander Guignard, whose red brick works supplied the masonry, lived from 1860 to 1926.
Still Hopes is a working Episcopal retirement community in West Columbia, not a museum, so tours of the 1910 Guignard mansion are not offered to the public; visits are generally limited to residents, their guests and staff. The grounds sit off State Street near the Congaree River, a short drive from downtown Columbia across the river.
The red brick of the 1910 mansion came from Guignard Brick Works, the family firm of Gabriel Alexander Guignard, for whom the house was built. The property is in West Columbia, Lexington County, not Cayce as some older records state.
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