Mr. Gault became president of the North Carolina Lumber Company and saw that the choicest lumber was set aside at his mill in Hallsboro for a number of years in anticipation of building the house.  In the majority of its construction, he insisted upon double the support or size of timbers usually used including the doubling of the shingles with which the sides of the house are covered.

Mr. James B. Lynch of Wilmington, NC, was the architect who drew the plans, but Mr. Gault served as his own contractor and actively supervised construction during the two years it took to complete the house.

His brother, an electrician in Chicago, drew the electrical plan and Mr. Sam T. Weaver of Lake Waccamaw installed most of the plumbing including the steam-heating system.  Other local and nearby workmen performed most of the carpentry, brickwork, plastering, painting, etc.  All of the floors were finished in their natural wood color and all windows and doors were fitted with pure copper screens.

The pecan grove had been planted in 1913 and originally the hill overlooking the lake dropped off northward into the grove.  The highway along the railroad (then NC Rt. 20) was being built and Mr. Gault rented some of their earth-moving equipment and pushed part of the crest of the hill down into the swamp toward the lake to fill it in and the rest back around the new house to raise and level off the surrounding yard.  Tennis courts were later added to this area.

In 1924, a power line was run from Wilmington to Whiteville through Lake Waccamaw and electricity was available in the area for the first time.  Flemington Hall was among the first homes in Lake Waccamaw to be built with electrical wiring.