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The former home of the O'Hagan and Laughinghouse families on Pitt Street was lost in a fire on January 6, 1996. The history of the house began as a small building built in the 1850’s by Dr. Charles J. O’Hagan (1821-1900) who immigrated from Ireland in 1842. O’Hagan was a teacher in Greenville until 1846 when he went to Medical School in New York. He began practicing medicine in Greenville in 1852 and gained a State-wide reputation. The house fell to his daughter, Eliza O’Hagan, who married Joseph John Laughinghouse, a prominent farmer and politician from Grimesland. They remodeled the house into a 17 room Queen Anne Style mansion. In 1965, the Flynn Christian Fellowship Homes, Inc. bought the house to help homeless men and alcoholics. It was dedicated in February 1966.