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Charles W. Shuff moved to Greenville, N.C. in May 1922 as branch manager of the Imperial Tobacco Company. Shuff and his wife, Hattie Pitts Shuff, bought a lot on Fifth Street from J.M. and Walter L. Harrington on April 1, 1924. On this lot, they built the Shuff House, one of the largest Colonial Revival houses in Greenville, in 1925. They raised three children there, and their daughter Phyllis C. Shuff and her husband Joseph Smith, Jr. moved into the house. Christopher Woelkers purchased the Shuff house and turned it into \"The 5th Street Inn,\" Greenville's first bed & breakfast inn.
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23008
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This article provides a short history of William H. Long's house on East Fourth Street. William H. Long (1886-1920) was a lawyer in Greenville. In 1915, his brother died in New York after having accumulated a fortune in the silent film industry. Long received a fourth share of his brother’s estate and in 1917 built his beautiful home. The house was designed by Benton and Benton of Wilson, NC in the neo-classical style. Each column is solid stone, brought up on a wagon by 24 mules from the steamboat on the river. The finished home contained 4,500 square feet of usable space, including a basement, first and second floors and a third floor that was originally planned as a ballroom. The house passed through the family and sold to a law firm. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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23698
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Herbert Augustus White (1877-1929) was a prominent business and insurance man in Greenville. He was a local representative of the Standard Oil Company ,director of the Greenville Bank & Trust Company; vice-president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and first president of the Home Building & Loan Association.White was also president of the Pitt County Oil Company; first president of the Standard Realty Company; and was charter member and first chairman of the Greenville Country Club. It was said that H. A. White had the first electric lights, first indoor bathtub and first radio in Greenville. In 1903, White built a home on the corner of Fifth and Greene Streets for former Gov. T. J. Jarvis and wife to live rent free. On July 2, 1908, H. A. White and wife attended the now famous groundbreaking for the East Carolina Teachers Training School. In 1901, White built a story office building at 403 Evans Street, which would later become the office of the Home Building and Loan Association in 1906. His two-story office building is still located on Evans Street uptown and his great granddaughter owns an art shop next door.
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23695
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The remarkable three-story Montgomery-Ward-Belk Tyler building is located on Fifth Street and once held some of the most prestigious chain stores to ever come to Greenville. This unique building had the only polychrome terra cotta façade erected in Greenville. The first buildings on the site were livery stables owned by Glascow Evans and George King. In 1902, W. E. Hooker built a three story brick stable on the site. In 1928, Hooker tore down the stables and built the tall four-story building for the Montgomery-Ward Company. They opened on Aug. 31, 1929 with 80 clerks and 11,000 patrons. Montgomery-Ward closed in 1932 and then Quinn-Miller moved into the store building. Belk Tyler then leased the building and opened on Aug. 25, 1938 with 143 salespeople. Belk Tyler remained in this store until 1979, when it moved to Carolina East Mall. The building changed hands. In 1984, Don Edwards moved his bookstore, The Book Barn, into the building. The Book Barn closed in 1985. The building was renovated and was readapted for apartments and restaurant space. The first restaurant was Granddaddy Rosser’s; then Paul Gianino opened 5th Street Pasta Works; followed by Fillabuster’s and in 1994 by BW III’s; and in 2008 by The Armadillo Grill.
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