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c. 1880 Folk Victorian
Thomasville, North Carolina 27360
The Old Doc Phillips House
We purchased this house near the end of 2015. Follow the story about our interpretive restoration.
Bedrooms | 4 |
Full Baths | 3 |
Half Baths | 1 |
Heated Sq. Ft. | 3,100 |
Stories | 2.0 |
Acres | 22 |
Features.
- 1st Floor Bath
- 1st Floor Bedroom
- 1st Floor Laundry Room
- Attic
- Crawl Space
- Dining room
- Entry Hall
- Kitchen
- Master bedroom upstairs
- Barn
- Circular driveway
- Storage Building
- Original wood windows
- Wood floors
- Shingle Roof: Asphalt shingle
- Central air
- City water supply
- Dishwasher
- Range
- Refrigerator
- Septic Tank
- Water Heater - Electric
- Claw-foot Tub(s)
- Wrap-Around Porch
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History, as best we can figure so far.
c. 1850 - A 6 room, two story house with a detached kitchen is built by Pastor Charles Phillips.c. 1880 - The house is inherited by Pastor Phillips' son, Dr. Charles Phillips.
Starting after 1880 Dr. Phillips added two more rooms to the north end of the house and built a connector between the kitchen and main house. He also added a wrap around porch. Later he widened the connector and added two more small rooms off the kitchen by enclosing parts of the porch.
During this time Dr. Phillips also constructed a shed and large barn about 100 yards north of the house. He probably had cows, horses, chickens, hogs, maybe some mules and goats.
c.1900 - Dr. Phillips added another two story addition on to the south end of the house consisting of 4 bathrooms. Knob and tube electrical wiring was also installed around this time.
c. 1920 - Dr. Phillips moved to downtown Thomasville and left the house to one of his sons. Marion Phillips. Marion Phillips apparently decided not to live in the house and it became a rental property until the late 1950's or early 60's.
c. 1960 - Marion Phillips lost ownership of the property and the house sat vacant for about 10 years.
c. 1971 - The property was purchased by Linda Swofford Steadman. She fixes up the house but does not restore it.
2015 - Linda Swofford passes away and we purchased the property wearing rose colored glasses.
Archived in February, 2018
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