Record #:

23376

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Sheriff William May King and his wife, Dicie Almeta Peebles King, opened the ”King House Hotel” on Evans Street in 1886. Mrs. King sold the Hotel to J. A. Andrews in 1898.Charles Carson Vines and his wife, Mattie Mayo Vines, leased and eventually owned the Hotel in 1899. The Hotel burned down on May 4, 1899. Mrs. Hiram Bentley Harris opened another King House on Dickinson Avenue in December 1899. Benjamin F. Patrick built the Hotel Bertha in 1900, where Starlight Café is today. B. F. Nunn purchased the Hotel in July 1915. It became the New Bertha Hotel in 1916 and the Princeton Hotel in October 1917. In December 1925 the Hotel burned. In early 1926 the New Princeton Hotel was rebuilt on the corner of Dickinson and Greene Streets. After it was a hotel, the Hotel Bertha became a grocery store, a department store, and finally the Starlight Cafe. In 1913, Charles Vines and his wife, Mattie, built the Vines House, which served as a boarding house. The House was bought by the City of Greenville about 1920 after C. C. Vines’ death in 1917. The City turned it into a teacherage for unmarried teachers. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Wooten purchased the House at an auction in 1942, and soon leased it to the Salvation Army as a serviceman’s hotel. In 1950, the Patient’s Circle of the King’s Daughters bought it with the intention of opening an old folk’s home, but the building was ruled as unsafe and sold back to Mrs. Wooten. She used it for a room-rental house until it was torn down in 1970.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , May 14-28 2008, p4

Subject(s):

Hotels, motels, etc.--Greenville