West Virginia Italianate with Porticos
The three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath Italianate was built by John William Keefe, a veteran of both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. After years of soldiering, Keefe settled down in Martinsburg and became a yardmaster and train dispatcher for the B&O Railroad. The house was handed down to his son, Hugh Keefe, who worked in the town’s thriving woolen mills, which later supplied blankets to soldiers during World War II.
The Civil War–era house remained a single-family residence until about 10 years ago, when it was turned into a law office—a natural conversion given its location just two blocks from the courthouse. It had been vacant for two years before This Old House featured it.
South Carolinia Georgian with Acreage
What makes the Coker House especially rare is its architectural lineage. As This Old House Magazine noted, it’s uncommon to find a Colonial-style home built this late—and this far south—yet the Caleb Coker house still feels like the stately manor it once must have been, set amid 6.4 acres of rolling land with mature trees.
The Coker family’s roots in the area run deep. According to This Old House Magazine, the first Cokers came to South Carolina from Virginia in 1740, and when Caleb Coker built this Georgian house around 1832, he was well established as a prosperous businessman and farmer. The home’s survival is due in no small part to Coker himself: during General Sherman’s 1865 Carolinas Campaign, Union troops ransacked many businesses and residences in the area, but Coker managed to successfully defend the family home.
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