City Directories and History: “Built ca. 1905, the two-story brick hotel is five bays wide in an “AABAA” configuration with a simple portico. The entrance has a rectangular transom and sidelights, and windows are two over two (2/2) lights with segmentally arched lintels. There are three interior chimneys rising from the hip roof. The hotel, now a private residence, retains the original pressed tin ceilings.”
Information from: Historic Resources of the Lowcountry, The Lowcountry Council of Government, Cynthia C. Jenkins, Preservation Planner – Published, 1979
“This residence, once a popular hotel, was built around 1905 by George W. Cone and has fourteen rooms. For years it served as a residence for Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cone and later for their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. George E. (Inez) Cone.”
(Editor’s notes: My mother’s notes include an interesting account of how Mrs. George W. Cone came to Brunson to teach school, and after she and George married, lived upstairs over the store, then moved next door in what is now the Bowers house, then to a home on Railroad Avenue that burned. Agnes Cone recalled that the player piano was playing “Nearer My God to Thee” when the fire broke out. This was the second house to burn on this lot, the first being when Captain Ben Williams’ family lived there. One of Capt. Ben’s daughters, Miss Kate, was ironing, and somehow fire broke out. Because of the two fire incidents, the Cones built the hotel from brick and without mantles or closets. When George E. and Inez remodeled, they had much difficulty putting mantle pieces over the fireplaces because the old plaster was difficult to manage.).
Information courtesy of the Bruson Riding Tour Guide – Brunson Family Reunion Committee, 2006
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