Built about 1855 for George P. Hoffman, who was born in North Carolina in 1829, this house was associated with a nearby sawmill he operated and with his service as the first postmaster of Doko, the community later known as Blythewood, in 1856. The area remained part of Fairfield County until its annexation into Richland County in 1913. During the Civil War, Capt. John L. Kennedy owned the house, and afterward it belonged to his widow Judith. In February 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman’s Federal forces advanced through the area, the house was one of several that were ransacked. By 1875 Hoffman, then a section master on the Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad, owned the house again. It later served as an antique shop, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and became the Blythewood Town Hall in 2000.