This house was located in Hobucken next to
the old Charitable Brotherhood Lodge No. 2 on the old tram road to Styron
Point, today named Lover’s Lane. The first house on this site was a
one-story, five-room, L-plan frame that was built about 1927 by Arnold
Gatlin Sadler (1900-1968). The only way into the kitchen was through
the back door or by leaving the main living area through the front door,
out onto the porch and in the back door. It was later remodeled by
Arnold
Sadler into a bungalow-style house by extending the width of the house on
the porch side to make the kitchen and pantry part of the main house. In
later years, the side porch built from the back of the house to the front
door was enclosed to become the new kitchen and dining room.
Arnold, son
of Augustus M. Sadler and Theresa Swindell Sadler, and his
wife, Martha Parson Sadler (1898-1969), daughter of Richard T.
Parson and Annie Ireland Parson, continued to live in this
house until the late 1960s. The house continued to be occupied by
a son of Arnold Sadler until it was destroyed by Hurricane Isabel in
September 2003.
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