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622 Third Avenue West

Charles W. Orton House

Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story bungalow with a hip roof and vinyl siding. Attached front porch with replacement posts and balustrade. Small porch at rear, southeast corner, has been enclosed. One-over-one windows; single-light-over-three-panel door. Charles W. Orton, a statistician with the county schools, and wife Minnie, lived here from 1937 to 1938. Alonzo Brookshire and wife Inez lived here from 1939 to 1940. Brookshire worked for Grey Hosiery Mills. Wiley W. Roberts, an operator with Southern Railway, and wife Fannie lived here from 1943 to 1944; William R. Ruff, a salesman at American Oil Company, and wife Ethel lived here from 1945 to 1946, and Mrs. Goldie P. Estroff, widow of Harris Estroff, lived here from 1948 to 1951.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)

Historic District
West Side