Dr. Lewis H. Trotti House
Chesterfield Baptist Church Pastorium
Chesterfield Baptist Church Rental Property
Minnie Smith Greene House
Minnie Smith Greene Rental Property
James I. Redfearn Law Office
Elizabeth Ann Gaddy Rivers: This house, according to the S. C. Archives, was built around 1911 for Dr. Lewis H. and Maggie Hanna Trotti; Dr. Trotti was a Chesterfield dentist. He was not satisfied with the house; he said it was uncomfortably cold and difficult to heat. He built another house on Craig Street a couple of lots down behind this house and moved his family there. Jimmy Redfearn told me that when he bought the property for his law office he had to lower the ceilings to make it possible to heat it comfortably. Dr. Trotti also had the house next door built along about the same time; this is the house I know as the Stephenson house. A well was dug to provide water for all three houses, and Jimmy says the well is still under his building today. Dr. Trotti sold this house to the Chesterfield Baptist Church, and they used it as their pastorium until they built the one on Park Drive that they use today. I remember when the Reverend Raymond T. DeArmond's family lived here when he was pastor. His daughter Carolyn was one of my classmates, and I was sad to see them move to Tennessee. The house became Chesterfield Baptist Church rental property, and the Reverend S. K. and Frances Entzminger and their four children made it their home. He was a missionary and the first leader of the Chesterfield Baptist Association. The Baptist Church later sold the property to Minnie Smith Greene, and she and her husband, E. O. Greene, moved from the Shiloh community to this house. Wishing to be back in the country, the Greenes made the move back to Shiloh, and she rented the house. I remember that Curtis and Sallie Boswell Griggs lived here in the early 60's; Curtis was a Chesterfield policeman. There might have been others who lived here when it was a single-family residence, but I don't remember them. Jimmy said that Marion and Dottie Ballard Oliver (Dr. Lewis Trotti's granddaughter) and their children lived here either before or after Mrs. Greene made the residence into two apartments. Jimmy bought the property from Mrs. Greene and moved his law practice here in 1968 where it is today.