A. Fletcher Spigner House

Wallace-McGee House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It built in 1937, and is a two-story International style stuccoed house. It features large areas of glass, a flat roof and a steel and reinforced concrete structural system. The front façade features a two-car garage topped by a sun deck. The house is based on plans by Edward Durell Stone published in Collier's Magazine on March 28, 1936.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Five Points in Columbia, South Carolina is a shopping, restaurant, and nightlife area that attracts customers from the nearby University of South Carolina and throughout the Columbia metropolitan area. It is the center for the city's annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival.It was Columbia's first neighborhood shopping district, named for the intersection of Harden Street, Devine Street and Santee Avenue. It was home to Columbia's first supermarket (an A & P), first Chinese restaurant (Kester’s Bamboo House), and the first bar in South Carolina to serve a cocktail (the Stage Door, which claimed to sell the state's first legal mixed drink after the South Carolina General Assembly approved the use of minibottles in 1973). When streetcars were prevalent, Five Points was a hub (rotating circle) for moving between downtown Columbia and the residential area of Shandon.In 2019, Five Points was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Lyles-Gudmundson House is a historic landmark home located in Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1918 and 1922, and is a two-story Classical Revival style brick dwelling. The home was a wedding gift for Evelyn Robertson Lyles, the daughter of Edwin Wales Robertson. A banker who is credited with much of Columbia's early twentieth century development, Robertson commissioned New York City architect James Brite to design his daughter's home as part of his Wales Garden neighborhood. Brite - a native North Carolinian who died in 1942 - was also the architect of The Braes in Glen Cove, New York and the famous Darlington Mansion near Mahwah, New Jersey. Construction began in 1918, but was delayed because of difficulty in obtaining materials from Europe. It features the iconic semicircular side portico with four two-story high fluted marble columns and a full entablature.The 6,000 square foot home features a pool and courtyard, all-original windows, four wood-burning fireplaces, and 10-foot ceilings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The home was constructed during the 1918 Influenza pandemic (1918-1920), and was recently sold in May 2020 during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to the third family to own the home in nearly a century.

Building at 303 Saluda Avenue, also known as John C. Heslep House, is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1917 as a two-story brick residence, then remodeled and rebuilt in the Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1927–1928. It features a low-pitched tile roof, coarse stucco walls, and cast iron balconies. Also on the property is a contributing guest house.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Heslep House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It built about 1927, and is a two-story Spanish Mission Revival style stuccoed house. It features round-headed windows, arches, balconies, sun decks, a square tower, sculptural portal and barrel tile roof.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Claussen's Bakery, also known as Claussen's Inn, is a historic commercial bakery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a two-story, trapezoidal plan, brick building that contains a total of 25,000 square feet. The Columbia bakery ceased operating in 1963. It was later converted to a boutique hotel. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

The University Neighborhood Historic District is roughly bounded by Gervais St., the Southern Railroad Cut, Greene St. and Pickens St. in the University Hill neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina. The district is significant for its architecture, including Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revival styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

WUSC-FM is a student-run college radio station operating at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

The Darla Moore School of Business is the official business school of the University of South Carolina. Founded in 1919, the Moore School is located in Columbia, South Carolina and currently enrolls over 5,500 undergraduate and 800 graduate students in degree-seeking programs, including bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. The school is well known for its consistent high rankings in its program for international business.

Florence C. Benson Elementary School, also known as Wheeler Hill School and the Benson Building, is a historic school building for African-American students located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1953–1955 in Wheeler Hill, a segregated African-American neighborhood, as an "equalization school." The one-story, three-finger plan school, is built of concrete block with a red brick veneer and reflects influences of the Modern and International styles. The school housed 18 classrooms. The school closed in 1975.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

WCOS (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station in Columbia, South Carolina. It carries a sports radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station goes by the name Fox Sports Radio 1400. Its studios and offices are on Graystone Boulevard in Columbia near Interstate 126. The transmitter is on Short Street in Columbia, near Millwood Avenue (U.S. Route 76).WCOS is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network, with the largest number of stations in Major League Baseball.

The University of South Carolina (USC, South Carolina, or Carolina) is a public research university in Columbia, South Carolina. It is the flagship of the University of South Carolina System and the largest university in the state by enrollment. Its main campus is on over 359 acres (145 ha) in downtown Columbia, close to the South Carolina State House. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities with Highest Research Activity". It houses the largest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature materials outside Scotland and the world's largest Ernest Hemingway collection.Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, USC now offers more than 350 programs of study, leading to bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from 14 degree-granting colleges and schools. The university system has a total enrollment of approximately 52,000 students, with over 35,000 on the Columbia research campus as of fall 2019, making it the largest university in South Carolina. USC also has several thousand future students in feeder programs at surrounding technical colleges. Professional schools on the Columbia campus include business, engineering, law, medicine, pharmacy, and social work.