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The Bascom Stanley house stood for many years in
the center of the Shallotte business district, anomalous, a
misfit, its bay window and gingerbread trim rominescent
of an era when dignified homes lined Shallotte's Main
Street.
Only a few of the houses remain, some maintained as
residences, others converted for business use. Tucked
between a fish market and an interior design shop, the
Stanley house had been unoccupied since late 1981, apparently
sentenced to a slow death.
Monday afternoon the genteel, uut time-worn house
won not only a reprieve, but a new start on life.
After dismantling the pitched roof, tall double brick
chimneys and gingerbread-trimmed front porch, Tommy
Small's House Movers of Tabor City hooked chains to
trucks and house. The tow trucks tugged and pulled and
groaned until the house reluctantly consented to the
move. Long lines of vehicles waited with varying degrees
of patience as Small worked the house south along U.S. 17
and out of town.
Al lis new location on N.C. 1/9 just south ot jennies
Branch Baptist Church, owner Emily Gore Vnrnum of
Myrtle Beach. S.C.. says she plans to restore the Bascom
Stanley house as nearly as possible to its former dignity,
even to replacing the tin roof with wooden shingles if she
can manage it
"I'm going to try." she said. "I'm going to do it as
near as I can.
"This is what I've always wanted."
Mrs. Gore said she plans to take about five years for
the restoration, possibly using the house as an antique
shop to help defray the cost of restoring and furnishing it.
Beautiful antiques once filled the house; remaining
pieces are scattered among various family members.
These include a lion's head chaise lounge, a mirrored buffet
and family portraits.
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the family, according to Mrs. Gore and to her cousin,
Mrs. linwood 'Deedyl Robinson, who grew up in and inherited
the Stanley house
The two-story frame home was built sometime
Iiefore 1913 bv John H. and Melissa Arnold White, Mrs
Robinson's maternal great-grandparents?mast likely
before the turn of the century. Before its relocation it wa>
thought to be one of the oldest homes in Shallotte.
The White estate was divided among 13
children?Melissa Belle, Mary Alice, Annie Mae, Ulysses
Grant, Martin Luther, Giiic, Virginia, Rebecca
Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane McRae, George, Henry Thomas
and John William White.
Jane, the youngest, inherited the house and the land
around it, stretching back to the Shallotte River, said
Mrs. Robinson. She married one Bascom Stanley, the
person whose name is most freauentlv associated wit!
the house. Jane's sister Ann was Emily Gore Vnrnneri's
great-grandmother.
Tile Buscuiei Stanleys' oldest child, mvlissa Einui
wus born in the house in 1513, helping date the residence
She married Tommy Oree Habon and they too made tiv
Stanley residence their home, rearing their daughte
Deedy (Mrs. IJnwood Itobinsoni and son Henry there.
When Mrs. Kabon died in lSHl, her husband sooi
moved iri with the Hobinsons. His son Henry chose to live
in a mobile home he located behind the old family home
As its appearance dctcfiui mod, Uio town begun eye
ing the tlascom Stanley home as an eyesore and passible
health and safety hazard, last year threatening condcm
nation if steps were not taken to either secure or dispose
of the house.
Monday's move wasn't the first for the house, It turn:
out. Mrs. Kobinson recalls that, during her childhood, the
house was pushed back from the edge of the street te
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The main house was rather spacious, including a
front room, shiing room, wide iiuSiway, two "shed" or Mrs
bedrooms downstairs and two upstairs, center stairs and
stairwell, porches and breczeway. When pushed back,
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'Hie kitchen rruiy be the oldest port of the home since
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She also has been unable to date the house precisely
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