 Hi, my name is Megan McNich and I'm a preservation planner with the City of Columbia. Today we're going to be talking a little bit about the history of the Whaley Street Protection Area. Whaley has a unique character and it's associated with both the Granby and Olympian mills and the houses within the district were used to house supervisors for the mills at varying levels. Some were lower level supervisors, some were higher up in the hierarchy. There are several historic house types located within the Whaley area. There is the Type D one story bungalow, the Type E two story side gable structures, and the Type F two story hip roof structures. In addition to the residential buildings located within the district, there are several historic commercial and religious buildings as well, including 701 Whaley Street, which was the Mill Community Building, the Southside Baptist Church, and Trinity Chapel, which is now the Cornerstone Baptist Church. So some important dates throughout the history of the Whaley Street area. In the late 1890s, the Granby and Olympian mills were constructed. In about 1900, the first supervisory structures were constructed on Whaley Street. That's the first housing that comes into the district and really continued along with the supervisory structures that we find on Whaley Street in the Granby district. In 1916, the Granby and Olympian mills were sold by the W. B. Smith Whaley Company to the Pacific Mill Company. And when Pacific mills purchased the mills and the associated housing, they began to develop the Whaley Street area more intensively. So beginning in 1916, and up until about 1920 construction, you continued within what is now the Whaley Street district. In 1939, Pacific mills saw costs associated with the housing that they had built and other mill villages within this area begin to rise. So they started to sell off individual houses to property owners. At this time, as individual property owners began to take ownership, they made small changes to their homes to make them more distinctive and unique and more personal to them. Fast forward several years to 2010, when this area was locally designated as a protection area. And within the last few years in 2018, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Olympian mill village. So the first housing type we're going to discuss today is the Type F style house. These structures are found predominantly on Whaley and Wayne streets and are among the first were constructed in the district. They share some similarities with the supervisory structures that we find in the Grand B district. The next type is the Type E structure. These are side gable structures that have a sort of saltbox style roof. And this these structures are found predominantly on Whaley Street and yet again as I mentioned earlier, sort of tie the Grand B and Whaley districts together. And the last historic house type is the Type D structure. These were the more recent additions to the neighborhood. And they're more commonly found on the side streets north and south of Whaley Street. They certainly have enclosed front porches and are more of that bungalow style that we see in both the construction by the Pacific mill company in the Whaley and Grand B districts. So that's a brief overview of the Whaley Street protection area. Hope that's been informative. If you have any questions about the Whaley area or about any other historic district in Columbia, please feel free to reach out to us at preservation at columbiasc.gov. Thanks.