1907. 240 S. Extension St.
The first president of the Bank of Hazlehurst, Robert Covington, possibly chose the design for his house from George F. Barber’s Modern Dwellings (1905). Barber labeled the plan “An Ideal Home” and described it as “a Colonial residence designed for erection in a southern city, with front porch circular and carried up two stories.” The rectangular plan of the two-and-a-half-story clapboard house is masked by full-height projecting bays and a complex front porch. A full-width second-floor balcony supported on slender Ionic columns runs behind the dominant, semicircular, Ionic portico, which finishes with an entablature and a Roman lattice balustrade. The family added the two-story sun porch to the south side in the 1920s.