One-and-one-half-story gabled cottages such as these were a common sight in Richmond in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The owner, John Morris, was a carpenter and built one structure as his home and the other as a rental property. The raised basements are not elements of the original design but rather a result of the regrading of 25th Street.
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