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Deitz House
Neil Furr/CITIZEN
paint is peeling on the old window frame of this east-facing win
dow in the Deitz house. The window is just one of the features of
the 1916 arts and crafts house.
Neil Furr
IREDELL CITIZEN
The bungalow-style house that
has occupied the comer of Walnut
and Mulberry St. in Statesville
since 1916 has run out of time and
will soon be demolished. Yet, in a
sense, its essence could live on,
though not in Statesville.
On a recent weekday, Raymond
Tarlton and Chip Wells of Benjamin
Bromiley Historic Building Consulting
and Construction Management of
Knightdale, NC, carefully removed and
marked window frames, cabinets and
other items that make the house at
410 Walnut St. endearing and interesting.
“Have you seen the pocket doors
back there with the stained glass?"
Tarlton asked as he carefully pre
pared and marked a window frame.
Those pocket doors, the window
frames, cabinets, beveled glass and
stained glass windows, river rock
porch and planters could all reap
pear in a house nearly identical tc
the Deitz house in the North
Carolina mountains, according tc
some sources. The timbers, the
foundations, the walls, the floors
The sun streams brightly into
one of the east-facing rooms of
the Deitz house but will soon be
fading; the house faces demoli
tion in the near future. The cab
inetry and other unique items
will be saved and restored.
and gardens of the real house on
Walnut St. are officially marked
for demolition, however.
Mitchell Community College’s
landscaping plans show parking
spaces at the comer of Walnut and
S. Mulberry.
The house was, for a long time, the
home of Iredell County’s first
female aviator, Virginia Deitz
Malcolm. After her days in avia
tion Mrs. Malcolm devoted her
time to her Oriental garden in the
back, which is now overgrown,
and to her work with the Fourth
Creek Chapter of the DAR and the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Noted in later life for having a
large number of cats in and about
her house, Mrs. Malcolm died in
1988. The house was purchased by I
Mitchell Community College in 1997
from Ron Briere for $119,900. At
the time the Mitchell Board sent a
letter to Briere stating it “has no
intention of demolishing it.”
Over the last several years, though,
the back garden became weedy
and unsightly and the porch and
rear roof disintegrated. For years a
blue tarp has covered a portion of
the roof. Intentions have changed.
Now, slowly and painstakingly,
unique items of the house are
being readied for a new existence
elsewhere.
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NAACP
Plans
Meeting
The Statesville Branch NAACP
will convene its regular monthly
membership meeting Sunday, Dec.
5, at American Legion Post 217 on
Wallace Springs Road. The meet-,
ing convenes at 4 p.m. A primary
agenda item will be the installation
of Branch officers and executive
committee for 2005-2006. Members
and interested public are invited.
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