City Directories and History: Lot 184 of the Allan Tract was sold to Arthur R. LaCoste, subject to the regular conditions, and recorded on February 10, 1915,[1] but he apparently did not built a house there; no house appeared in either the 1920 or 1930 census. When he sold the lot to Mrs. Thelma M. Kruger on December 5, 1930, the sales price was only $2000, and there was no mention of a house.[2]
She and her husband, Kurt Hermann Kruger, a salesman for Condon Baking Co., were living in the house in 1931 and when he died on February 4, 1933. After Mr. Kruger’s death, the house seems to have been used as a rental property.[3]
On May 2, 1938, Carolina Savings Bank clerk J. Julius Bonnoitt, Jr. bought the house for $4500 and lived there with his wife, Cath.[4] In 1942, however, the house was vacant.
On June 25, 1943, sisters Lillian Kathryn Hanley and Theresa A. Hanley bought the house for $6350.[5] They remained for many years before selling the house on November 14, 1969 for $16,000 to Westvaco employee Joseph Mitchell Blake.
Mr. Blake and his wife, Loretta Blake, lived in the house after he bought it. In 1973, the house was home to Mrs. Rebecca Blake, instead of Loretta Blake. Starting in the 1990’s, the occupancy of the house was confusing. From 1992 until 1995, the house appears to have also been home to Juan (public defender) and Joseph Tolley (Navy Yard employee). The Tolleys were replaced in 1996 by Rebecca J. Gaskin. The next year, Ms. Gaskin lived there alone. In 1998, she was joined by Willie Gaskin. On December 27, 1999, Rebecca J. Gaskin received the house by quitclaim deed.[6]
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SOURCES:
[1] Deed book R26, page 564
[2] Deed book T35, page 152
[3] By 1934, it was occupied by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. assistant manager Mabry L. Brockman and Gertrude Brockman. By 1938, it was home to Frederick W. and Lina B. Kinard. Mr. Kinard was an instructor in physiology at the Medical College of South Carolina, now MUSC.
[4] Deed book J40, page 357
[5] Deed book W43, page 791
[6] Deed book S340, page 190
(Information researched and written by Kevin Eberle – 2017)
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