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off the walls, and scraped coat after coat of paint off the wood trim and moulding. And, they learned the history of the house, she said, noting it is one of several houses in the area built by George Hawkins. Another stands across Gay Street from the library, now owned by Richard Viguerie. “It was well constructed, and it made us realize the value of an old, well-built house.”
But still, she said, “many times during that first year Pat said to me, ‘I told you we shouldn’t have bought that house’.” They moved in just before Christmas, 1981, and “spent hours sanding floors, cleaning and painting.” That first winter there was heat in only one room, so Pat, Camille and their two daughters slept there, warmed by a coal stove.
As they restored more rooms of the house, they realized they couldn’t use the entire house. “And,” Camille added, “we had taken on this house but didn’t know how to support it.”
About that time, Sandra Cartwright-Brown had started Conyer’s House near Slate Mills, the county’s first bed-and-breakfast. “We talked,” Camille said, “and she kept encouraging us. She said that it was the perfect house for a B and B. With two young babies, it seemed the most likely business.”
And, the house’s history lent itself to that use. From the time it was built until the 1950s, it was used as a tourist home, Ms. Harris said. Also, for some time it saw service as a
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