City Directories and History: This fine home was operated as a boarding house for many years and known locally as the Dunn home. The house was demolished to make way for commercial development along South Congress street.
Wade M. and Clyde (grandmother) Crowder Aiken rented this home, probably from just prior to 1940 up until 1954 when they built a house on Evans St. The house was used as a boarding home during much of this period. [Contribution by Val Greene]
After leaving this home, the Aiken family built the brick veneer one story house to the right of John McMeekin on Evans Street around 1952. It is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas Sprott, Jr……210 Evans. After Mrs. Aiken died, it was bought by Mr. and Mrs. E. Burr Lewis who reared two children Mrs. Lewis had by a former marriage. They were Johnny and Marie Starnes. The Lewis also have a daughter, Nancy (Mrs. Locke Frazier.) The children were actually reared in the Lewis’s former home at 423 North Congress Street (now Glover Memorial Chapel.) Mr. and Mrs. Lewis lived at 210 Evans until their deaths.
Albert Doty (bachelor son of J.B. Doty, Jr. on High Street) razed the old Dunn house and build the current building. Albert Doty ran the Chrysler Plymouth agency (Doty Motors) on that corner until his death in the mid 1970’s. It was sold by his estate to Hennies Pope who ran Pope Chrysler Dodge Plymouth until selling it in the late 1990’s to Freddie Wilson (Wilson Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Wilson Chevrolet just north of town on Highway 321. [Contribution by J.M. Lyles, III]
NOTE: V.G., and he said his grandparents, Wade Middleton and Frances Clyde Crowder Aiken, lived in the Dunn house between the years 1936 – 1958. So, I wonder what years Sabie’s parents were there? The wedding picture I sent – taken in the house, was of his parents, Francis Laval (Pete) and Mary Hazel Aiken Green, Jr. Val is F. L. Green III and his son Laval is the IV. I identified the pictures with the wrong names. The babies were Val and his cousin John Meade Coleman (whose grandmother Mamie Crowder was Val’s grandmother Frances Clyde’s sister). The May Queen was an unidentified friend of Hazel Aiken Green’s. Claudia, I think we discussed the Dunn connection before. I still wonder if there might have been a connection as one of the Spurriers was also from Kentucky and I think came here as a horse salesman. I’ll have to find my notes on that for detail. [Written and submitted to R&R by Val Green and Pelham Lyle]
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