A dozen owners have occupied this Connecticut Street estate in Spartanburg
’s Converse Heights Historic District, but Lori and Fritz Butehorn http://www.officialcowboysprosale.com/chris-jones-jersey-c-1_33.html and their two teenagers, Hank and Sophie, call it home. And they plan to for decades to come.Fritz grew up just a few blocks away, and though the couple left South Carolina for a time, they found their way back in 2005
—and not just to Spartanburg, but to the same historic neighborhood with its revival architecture and tree-lined streets.The Tudor was built in 1924 by Mayor Ben Hill Brown; Lockwood Green designed it the same year they worked to erect a
“skyscraper,” the Montgomery Building (currently under its own redevelopment, saving its deco-period façade). It is believed that Charles Lindbergh as well as Amelia Earhart may have visited the Mayor’s home while on tour touting the aeronautics industry.“
We love that this house holds so much history and character, and for an old Tudor it’s surprisingly open inside,” says Fritz. “The outside is certainly Tudor Revival, but it’s not exactly Tudor on the inside, which suits us too.”Ben Hill Brown lost the home during the depression and a string of homeowners followed, one as fascinating as the next. Norman Armitage and his wife Constance occupied it in the 1960s. Norman was a six-time Olympian in saber and carried the U.S. flag in three Opening Ceremonies. Constance spoke 15 languages and purportedly was
http://www.cowboysprostore.com/chris-jones-jersey-c-1_19.html a spy for the allies leading up to WWII. She later became an art professor at Wofford.
It was the Armitages who purchased the blue-and-white Delft tile frieze from a New York auction house depicting the Israelites
’ flight to Gilead, believed to date to the early 1700s. It was installed it the garden room, once a covered porch.
