Massachusetts-born merchant Joseph Fay purchased these two tything lots in 1847, hiring Norris to design this impressive but curious hybrid of country villa and town house. Encumbered today by subsequent additions, it was originally a tall, freestanding, three-bay, three-story Italianate building raised on a half basement and surrounded by a walled garden on three sides. In 1871 the property was purchased by George Wymberley Jones De Renne, who extended it to the west, adding a carriage house and servants quarters along Liberty Street and hiring J. J. Cadogan to create a formal garden of camellias, roses, and cypress trees. The building was further modified after it was sold to the Georgia Hussars in 1890, serving as their armory until 1925. The attached restaurant, The Public Kitchen and Bar, was constructed before 1916 for use as stores and recently redesigned (2011–2012, Dawson Architects).