This one-and-a-half-story frame residence is one of the city’s earliest Greek Revival houses and was built for Sarah and John Walworth, an attorney and cotton planter. Builders Montgomery and Keys referenced The Burn in their 1837 proposal to build a wing for Jefferson College in Washington: “If you wish to see some of our work you can take a squint at John P. Walworth’s House in the north part of this Town.”
A three-bay pedimented Doric portico with a thermal window defines the entrance, and its entablature continues across the facade, where it is supported by pilasters. The entrance frontispiece features a molded entablature supported by pilasters and engaged fluted columns. Inside, a wide hall features a semielliptical staircase that appears to defy gravity as it breaks away from the wall to make an unsupported half turn rising to the second story. Toward the rear of the house on the north side is a two-story L-shaped brick dependency with a hipped roof and two-story gallery that originally housed enslaved house servants. The Burn is now a bed-and-breakfast.