Happy Hour: Renovation Roundtable

Enjoy happy hour with past Mabel Payne award winners as they discuss architecture and preservation in Columbia

Join City preservation staff, local preservationists, and historic home owners for a chat about preservation and architecture in Columbia. Past Mabel Payne Award winners will offer tips and tools for tackling local renovation and preservation projects. Join in the conversation with your own stories or come ready with questions about your project.

Given annually by the the City of Columbia Planning Division, the Mabel Payne Award is named for one of the City’s first planners whose dedication and advocacy for historic structures laid the groundwork for preservation in Columbia and made her a trail blazer in preservation. The award recognizes individuals, organizations, and neighborhoods for their outstanding efforts in education, leadership, conservation, or stewardship which supports our built environment and, ultimately, the entire City. Mabel Payne Award winners may work behind the scenes or they may be front and center, but their work has had a significant impact on Columbia and its historic built environment through their outstanding efforts in education, leadership, conservation, or stewardship of the City’s historic resources.

About Mabel Payne

Mabel Payne was a City of Columbia employee whose work in the 1950s documenting and preserving historic structures laid the foundation for preservation in the City. Her records of historic properties are often the only surviving information available on demolished buildings that were once a part of the City’s historic downtown.