home of distinction 45 www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM the Sprunts’ ground level servants’ wing was removed to make room for the Suggs’ new HVAC system. An elevator from the ground level to the main floor that was added by a previous owner was retained, Humphrey explains, and a new opening to the kitchen was created to provide access from the primary east elevation entrance. Building contractor Tom Hanna of T.B. Hanna Construction executed the restora-tion and improvements. “Tom is very talented,” Sam Sugg says. “This house was taken apart and put back together.” The labor required pulling off exterior details, detaching the house from the chimney to elevate it above the pilings and set it back down; the porches, railings, lat-tice, shutters and windows were removed, repaired and restored without breaking. Almost everything was locally sourced. Knowing the imminent National Register “It was a typical age old beach house,” Humphrey says. “It had layers of finish on top of each other. At the same time you could still feel the bones and root of what it looked like years and years ago.” Thirteen-foot double tiered porches are one of the hallmarks of the historic Sprunt Cottage recognized by the National Register for Historic Places. Like the Sprunts, the Suggs enjoy the southwest corner of their ground level deck overlooking Banks Channel.
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