McKee Home
5216 McLeod Road

The Dutch Colonial-style house was built in 1974 and purchased by John and Clyde McKee in 1975. In 2005 they completely remodeled the kitchen, adding a great room, gallery, utility room and two porches, one screened. A steppingstone walkway leads to an herb garden and daylily garden.

The home is furnished with family and Oriental antiques and features a wall of memorabilia about Mrs. McKee’s grandfather and namesake, former Robeson County Sheriff, Clyde Wade. Sheriff Wade served three terms, being elected first in 1938 after serving as deputy sheriff since 1931.

The home is decorated with fresh greenery and berries from their yard as well as a fresh tree. Grapevine wreaths with magnolia, holly and fir are used on the front of the home and fir wreaths are used on the back porch. Two of the owners’ daughters are planning a nature-themed tree for the porch.

Andrews Home
402 Barker Ten Mile Road

This 1965 home was designed by Lumberton architect Elizabeth Lee for Dr. Bob Andrews and his wife, Mary Lou. Andrews served as pathologist at Southeastern Regional Medical Center for 40 years. When they chose this area it was very rural with only a few homes including the Joseph Sandlins next door and the Carr Gibsons across the street.

Lee designed the home to blend into the large wooded lot. The home features large expanses of glass to bring nature into the home. One interesting feature is on the mantel in the den. It is a bas-relief featuring starfish and seashells designed and made by Andrews and Lee.

Andrews’s son is an architect and, when asked by Lee what he thought of the home, he replied, “It is a good house for the 60s.” The home is decorated for Christmas in a traditional style

Bodiford Home
314 Barker Ten Mile Road

This two-story brick home on Barker Ten Mile Road was built in 1999 for Buddy and Martie Ann Bodiford. Sitting on a large corner lot, it features a wonderful, inviting curved front porch with columns supporting a curved roof.

Mrs. Bodiford is a self-proclaimed Christmas enthusiast loving everything about the holiday. The home features four trees on the main floor. The kitchen tree is hung in a fruit motif while the large tree in the foyer is decorated with ornaments collected on the Bodifords' travels.

Santas of all kinds set the theme for the tree in the den. The tree located in the mother-in-law suite is decorated with ornaments collected over the years, including ornaments that Mrs. Bodiford made as a child for her mother .. On the walls throughout the home is a collection of Christmas-themed jigsaw puzzles done by Mrs.. Bodiford.

Nye – McKenzie Home
2505 N McMillan Ave

This home in the Tanglewood Subdivision was built in 1947. An advertisement with a photograph of the home appears in the August 25, 1961 edition of The Robesonian lists “a very nice two bedroom and dining room on a 108’ by 108’ lot in the best section of town. A stairway leads to an unfinished second floor with room for two bedrooms and a bath.” The price was $15,800 with a down payment of $2,800 and monthly payments of $83.40 plus taxes and insurance.

Jack and Mary Nye purchased the home in 1964 and in 2000 it was purchased from their heirs by James and Karen Granger. In 2004 Pat McKenzie retired in Virginia and purchased the home to be closer to her family.
Since purchasing the home in 2004 she has done lots of remodeling and redecorating in the home. She completed lots of the work herself. She had moldings installed on the first floor and painted the dining room in a tone on tone stripe. Hardwood floors were installed in the kitchen and new glass pane doors were added to the cabinets. Black and white tile was installed in the small porch off the kitchen which now serves as a breakfast nook.

The den is inviting with an antique church pew and pie safe. At the window is hung a beautiful stained glass window; in fact, most of the windows throughout the home have either leaded or stained glass windows hanging as accents. The first floor also features a master bedroom.

The stairway to the second floor is lined with not only photographs of Mrs. McKenzie's children and grandchildren but also ancestors. The first room upstairs serves as her office and art studio, where she creates many crafts using shells. The grandchildren's bedroom features a white iron bed and daybed and is filled with stuffed animals and toys. The space under the eaves of the house was converted into a wonderful play land for the grandchildren. It is painted with a large tree and flowers and a sun painted around a window. It is the perfect place to host a tea party or spend a rainy afternoon pretending to be in another world. The two stained glass windows on the second floor were done by Mrs. McKenzie. She has spent the past two years working in the gardens, which feature a birdbath and brick trimmed flower beds.

McNeill-Redfearn Home
1501 N. Elm Street

The McNeill-Redfearn Victorian home was built in 1901 by Daniel Bunyan McNeill. McNeill moved to Lumberton in 1901 from his farm. He was a farmer and cotton warehouseman. He married Irene King, sister of Lumberton dentist Dr. David King. The McNeills were members of First Baptist Church and had five daughters.

Mr. McNeill died in 1953 and his widow continued to live in the home until her death two days before Thanksgiving in 1976. In her later years her daughter, Emma King McNeill Seyfried, and her husband Paul lived with Mrs. McNeill. The Seyfrieds remained in the home until her death in February 2004 and his the following February.

The house was sold to Rob Redfearn in 2006 and he began the renovation process, which is still ongoing. Redfearn is no stranger to renovations as he restored one of downtown Lumberton's old buildings, former Bargain Barn, to serve as a restaurant. The Black Water Grille, located on West 3rd Street, opened in 2004 and offers American/Cajun/Creole fare set in a century-old mule stable with exposed brick walls, huge timber beams and 20- foot ceilings.

The house is under renovation. A tour of this house will allow you to see what is involved in renovating an old house. The house was painted white when Redfearn bought it, but since he has painted it blue and white. The outside of the house has remained much as it has been through the years. He has added a side deck and an iron fence on the north side of the house. The home's interior has been extensively remodeled and updated.

Robeson County History Museum
101 South Elm Street

The Robeson County Museum was organized in 1986 as the Robeson County Heritage Showcase under the auspices of Robeson County Bicentennial.

The museum is housed in the reconstructed historic Southern Express Building along the banks of the Lumber River. The iron front building was constructed about 1910 across the street from the railroad depot by the late Governor Angus W. McLean in the heart of Lumberton’s business district.

The museum highlights interesting events in Robeson County’s history with artifacts from early geological times to the present. Exhibits show the natural resources, transportation, agricultural, commercial, military, social and cultural history of the area. The museum’s goal is to tell the story of the county with permanent and changing exhibits.