The large antique doors as you enter the restaurant are made of local cypress and are over one hundred fifty years old. The flooring in this section is actually siding from a South Carolina farm house built in the 1850's. It was removed and remilled into flooring. The beautiful beveled glass over the doorway into the dining room came from the White Mansion in Lumberton, NC.

The main dining room was the original Little River Methodist Church built in 1885. It served as a church until1952 when a new Little River Methodist Church was built. At that time the building and several side structures added over the years were converted into a community meeting place. The structure was bought by longtime Little River resident, Mr. Toby Frye in 1978 and moved approximately two blocks south to the present location where the building was converted into a restaurant using stained and beveled glass Mr. Frye had collected over the years to add to the decor. The large chandelier in this section originally hung in the Baptist Church in Mullins, Sc.

The original church was built by H.J. Vereen, Sr., Robert Livingston and Dr. R.G. Sloan. Mr. H.W. Stone sawed the logs for the church and did such a good job that most of the original wood is still in the building. The main dining room shows the original hand hewn heart of pine floors. Local cypress covers the original pine board interior walls but the original clap board pine siding still covers the walls in the outside rooms. The first marriage in the church in1886 joined together the McCorsley and McGinn families.

The stained glass windows in the main room were originally in the Baptist Church of Mullins, S.C. The remaining stained and beveled glass were removed from various old churches through out the South, by the previous owners Ed and Nancy Murray. The stunning original Tiffany lamp in the main room came from an old farm house in Atlanta.
Please feel free to walk around the various rooms to view all the antique stained glass. As a challenge, see if you can pick which window is probably the most valuable and why.

 

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