c. 1760–1767; 1871 raised with ground floor addition; 1907 remodeled with balcony added. 122 E. Oglethorpe Ave.
Possibly the oldest intact building in the city, this house began its life as a modest two-room residence one-and-a-half stories tall, typical of eighteenth-century Savannah. Its broad clapboard planks, informal fenestration, and small window panes attest to its early date, while the extension of the side-gabled roof at a gentler pitch above an attached rear shed followed the New England saltbox form. In 1871 the house was raised and a brick ground floor erected beneath to emulate an elevated town house, giving the building its distinctive dual character.