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1431 Wellington Drive

1431 Wellington Drive

A Gift by Design

This 1939 Colonial Revival house was designed by architects Lafaye & Lafaye for Marguerite Lafaye Bruton (1909–1983), the daughter of George E. Lafaye (1878–1939), and her husband Calvin M. Bruton (1907–1956), a druggist who founded Bruton's Apothecary in 1951, Columbia's first drive-up prescription service. The house features a side-gabled porch, as well as a central entrance with pilasters and molded cornice surrounding a paneled door. Marguerite’s uncle, Robert S. Lafaye (1892–1972), and his family lived a few blocks away at 2630 Stratford Road. 

  • 1431 Wellington Drive

    1431 Wellington Drive, 2015. Historic Columbia collection

  • Marguerite Lafaye Wedding

    Marguerite Rayel Lafaye photographed on her wedding day to Calvin Michael Bruton, July 10, 1937. Reprinted from The State, July 11, 1937

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