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Stephen Lewis Howell, business partner to Thomas
McNeely, built the Greek Revival house around the 1850s. Howell
served as Registrar of Deeds. Howell sold the house in 1863 to
William Lafayette Brown, who ran a tobacco factory to the north of
the house. When the Browns moved to Winston-Salem in about 1880,
they sold the property to Calvin Cowles Sanford, a prominent
businessman and merchant. The house descended to the Larew family
upon C.C. Sanford's death.