1427 Summerville Avenue
Most of Cottontown is characterized by bungalows, cottages, and American Four Squares built from the 1910s through the early 1940s. However, as the neighborhood did not develop uniformly, certain parcels were not improved until after World War II. Among post-war housing options, Ranch Style residences, such as this ca.-1955 structure, proved popular for folks interested in embracing the latest fashion. Elongated and wide with low rooflines, such houses featured open floor plans, rear patios instead of front porches, and picture windows. Designed for efficient and casual living, such houses became synonymous with suburbs of the late 1940s through 1970s.
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1427 Summerville Avenue, 2018. Historic Columbia collection
Dr. William S. Hall
For decades, the family of Dr. William Stone Hall (1915-1995), a nationally recognized psychiatrist and administrator, called this property home. A native of Wagener, South Carolina, Hall served as South Carolina’s State Commissioner of Mental Health from 1963 until 1985. Hall began his long association with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health in 1938. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, Hall went on to receive copious accolades and awards during a distinguished thirty-five-year career. In 1966, the South Carolina State Hospital named its new psychiatric institute facility in his honor. Thereafter, the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute became a nationally recognized teaching and research hospital.
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Dr. William Stone Hall, December 1971. Image courtesy Richard Hall
