This house is startling in its deviation from the traditional Savannah row house typology dominant on Jones Street, in its picturesque massing of abstract cylindrical and rectangular forms, and in the numerous diagonal wall-ends evoking gables that frame small portions of steeply sloping standing-seam copper roofs. This use of abstracted traditional forms represents the flight from modernist dogmatism and the attempt to create the sense of place that characterized Postmodern architecture of the early 1970s. Zoning laws at the time required the house be set back from the street line. The much simpler and more recent Brower House (2007, Daniel E. Snyder Architect) across the street at 320 E. Jones is an abstract reinterpretation of a Charleston single house for the twenty-first century, with an at-grade side-porch entrance and, facing the side garden to the west, colossal abstract piers (suggestive of a traditional double gallery) that frame a second-floor verandah and floor-to-ceiling windows.