1818–1824; later additions. 1st South St. at Depot St.
Tradition has it that Abram M. Scott, future governor of the state, began this fine Federal-style house in 1819 and completed it by 1824. Although of wood, it possesses the same scale and tetrastyle Tuscan portico as the brick Lewis-Morris House (see ND2). The first-story frontispiece is a masterpiece of Federal woodwork, with slender pilasters rising to deep and thin stacked capitals that support a delicately detailed fanlight. A rooming house after the Civil War (when the side additions were probably made), it became a single-family house again in 1900 for two generations of Woodville doctors. Late-nineteenth-century maps label the one-story frame galleried outbuilding at the rear as a “Private School.”