Versatile Property with Large Foyer

Circa est 1898, this Historical property has been a staple in Sylvania’s history. The property has served as a mixed use property.. Residential and Commercial, since its being built in the late 1800’s. With a wonderful mixture of large foyer, parlor rooms, bedrooms, baths, and open meeting space, popular uses in 2025 may be residential, apartment residential, restaurant, VRBO or AirB&B, event space, professional offices and Bed and Breakfast to name a few. Property is being sold subject to a restriction from being a funeral home. For a glimpse into the history of this house see below for an excerpt from VANISHING GEORGIA AS Copyright Brian Brown Photography/Vanishing Media USA 2008-2025. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use of this material without express and written permission from this website’s author/owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may by used, provided that full and clear credit is given with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Unauthorized use of any material on this site is a violation of copyright. Please report broken links and violations of copyright. CLICK HERE TO VIEW WEBSITE. https://vanishinggeorgia.com/category/sylvania-ga/page/2/ As is often a tradition in Georgia towns and cities, one of the grandest homes in the city now serves as a funeral home. In Sylvania, it’s the Thompson-Strickland-Waters Funeral Home. Its history is shared here by Nancy Hilton Scherr, via Norman Scherr: The funeral home was built in 1890 by my grandfather, Lee Holmes Hilton, who was only 25 at the time. He moved his wife and children in and the Hilton Home remained in our family until about 1950. He was killed in 1911 after achieving so much including bringing the first bicycle to Sylvania, the first car (an Orient Buckboard), the first bank (Screven County Bank), the first oil mill (Screven Oil Mill), and the first telephone company which was a line connecting Sylvania with the outside world at a station on the the Central of Georgia Railway. Founding the nearby town of Hiltonia, he served on the Sylvania Board of Education, and he also served in the 1900 and 1901 Georgia House of Representatives. My father, named after him, practiced law for years in Louisville, Kentucky, until he moved us back into the Hilton House where he had been born in 1904. I loved living there as a very young girl. Papa died at age 79 and was prepared for burial in the home he was born in, a full circle of life.

Details

Property ID
720289

1
Bedroom

1
Bathroom

Square Footage
8913

Lot Size
0.75

Year Built
1898

Style
Other

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