City Directories and History: Hampton Park Terrace, Inc. sold Lot 30 of its development to Frederica D. Keller[1] on May 13, 1916.[2] In May 1916, they got a building permit for the construction of an $1800 house.[3] She and her husband, Naval Shipyard clerk and sheetmetal worker Robert H. Keller,[4] were living in the house by 1916 and remained until at least 1920. After their short stay, the house was occupied in 1921 and 1922 by Atlantic Coast Line train conductor Howard Webster
Lathrop[5] and Ina Mae Pinkerton Lathrop,[6] possibly as renters.
On May 6, 1923, Mrs. Keller sold the house to David S. Flinton.[7] David Sidney Flinton[8] worked most of his life for Thomas & Howard, grocers. He was married to Annie Bird Flinton.[9] They lived in the house with their son, John, until 1926. (Many years later, the Flintons died in an Eastern Airlines plane crash at Charlotte, North Carolina on September 11, 1974, the same crash that killed Stephen Colbert’s father and brothers.)
On February 26, 1926, John Warley Snowden[10] bought the house.[11] Mr. Snowden was a cashier and later an officer with the Miners & Merchants Bank. The couple and their daughters Nancy Snowden[12] and Florine Snowden[13] occupied the house. He died, and his widow, Anne Hume Gantt[14] continued living in the house until at least 1968.
On May 25, 1968, Anne Snowden sold the house to Johnnie and Ernestine Williams for $12,925.[15] From 1969 to 1971, it was home to Rev. Johnnie Williams and Willie M. Williams. He was the pastor of the Clavary Methodist Church.
On March 23, 1971, David D. Middleton[16] and Elise A. Richardson Middleton bought the house for nominal consideration and the assumption of the mortgage with a balance of almost $12,000.[17] They had married in May 1942. He worked for the South Carolina Railway. David Middleton outlived his wife and died on May 6, 2009 at age 90. He had been a deacon of the Salem Missionary Baptist Church.[18]
Marc Engelke bought the house on October 12, 2010, for $110,000 from the estate.[19] He undertook an extensive restoration of the house, preserving all of its original details while fixing serious structural issues. His work was rewarded with a Caolopolis Award from the Preservation Society of Charleston.
The current owner, Jennifer Aimee Gerard bought the house from Mr. Engelke on February 3, 2011, for $293,000, and she makes it her home.[20]
[1] (b. abt. 1879)
[2] Deed book W26, page 407
[3] Charleston Evening Post, May 19, 1916, at 15
[4] (b. abt. 1877)
[5] (b. Sept. 1, 1880; d. Feb. 22, 1938)
[6] (1883-1950)
[7] Deed book Y31, page 42
[8] (b. January 31, 1897)
[9] (b. Dec. 17, 1896)
[10] (b. Apr. 5, 1887; d. Dec. 12, 1951)
[11] Deed book K33, page 54
[12] (b. abt. 1922)
[13] (b. abt. 1924)
[14] (b. Nov. 29, 1896; d. Apr. 29, 1988)
[15] Deed book H90, page 305
[16] (b. Aug. 31, 1918; d. May 6, 2009)
[17] Deed book F96, page 208
[18] May 12, 2009, Charleston Post & Courier, May 12, 2009
[19] Deed book 0148, page 693
[20] Deed book 0171, page 912
Also see the National Register District data on Hampton Park Terrance
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