The Robert Mills House, also known as Robert Mills Historic House and Park or the Ainsley Hall House, is a house in Columbia, South Carolina that was designed by Robert Mills.
The Historic Columbia Foundation owns and operates the home as a historic house museum which has been furnished with decorative arts of the early 19th century, including American Federal, English Regency, and French Empire pieces.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.
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