Historic Clarke County Mitts house destroyed by fire
Published 3:01 pm Thursday, November 9, 2017
- From Visit Clarke County websiteThe historic Swan-Mitts home was destroyed in a house fire Tuesday. The cause of the fire is unknown.
One of the Enterprise community’s historical attractions, the Swan-Mitts house, burned Tuesday night, destroying the house.
The Swan-Mitts house, constructed sometime between 1900 and 1906, was fully involved when firefighters arrived at the home sometime after 9:30 p.m.
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“No one was at the home,” Eddie Ivy, the Clarke County emergency manager, said. “Because it was a very old home, once it was on fire it was incredibly hard to put out.”
Ivy said the home was a total loss and that some animals had perished in the fire.
No cause for the fire has been determined, Ivy said.
According to Visit Clarke County, the Swan-Mitts house, built by L.J. and Olive Swan, later housed prominent business and community leader Corrine “Dutch” Mason, who was married to F. W. Mitts.
The Queen Anne-style house, known as the “Hilltop House,” stood 85 Hilltop Drive.
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