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Presbyterian Junior College
The magnificent art deco Norment Motor Company
Home and Business Demolished
Dr. Rudolph Ertel Vampill was born in Breslau, Germany on
April 17, 1823. He received his medical training in Berlin and Fires Destroy Homes
Vienna. He served as a captain in the Revolution of 1848 in Ger- Farmer and lumberman Robert Lee McLeod built a two-story
many and came to the United States in 1857. He began his prac- Neo-Classical Revival house in downtown Maxton in 1908. In-
tice of medicine in Little Rock, S.C. where he married Anna Jane stead of building it to face Florence Street he has had it built to
Hargrave in 1860. The Vampills choose the corner of Fifth and face the side street so that the back of his home would not be an
Water Streets to build a large home that featured a turret. They eye sore for people at the Presbyterian Church. The home re-
later gave the home to their daughter Lillian Ottelia Vampill who mained in the family until the death his daughter, Ruth McLeod
married William Watts Carlyle. The Carlyles were parents of Ha- Allen, in 2004. The home burned several years later.
zel, Sarah, Lillian, Janie, William and Senator F. Ertel Carlyle.
The home was demolished. The property later housed the Nor- Fire was also the reason the beautiful two-story Victorian home
ment Motor Company. with attached gazebo was lost. The home was built in St Pauls on
Old Stage Road by Locke Shaw a large farmer and merchant. He
The Lumberton based Thomas M. Burney and Son, Inc. firm and his brother-in-law, Alexander R. McEachern, worked with
consisted of builder, Thomas Matthew Burney and his engi- Angus Wilton McLean to bring the Virginia and Carolina South-
neer son Russell Thomas Burney. In 1938 the firm designed and ern Railroad came to the St. Pauls in 1907. Shaw and McEach-
built for Clint Norment The Norment Motor Company on West ern owned the land surrounding the Railroad which was divided
Fifth Street. The high art deco style building featured large plate into lots and sold by auction.
glass windows and terrazzo flooring; it was called their greatest
modern work. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company featured the
building that year in its advertising. This magnificent art deco
example was also demolished.

Robert Lee McLeod House

Dr. Rudolph Ertel Vampill Home

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