This is one of Savannah’s best-preserved houses, having passed directly from the Low family to its current owner, the National Society of Colonial Dames, in 1928. It has served as a house museum since then. An early example of Norris’s residential architecture, its elegant cubic form is dramatically set off by an iron-fenced garden in front that declared the owner’s wealth (prominent private gardens are rare in downtown Savannah). The garden, with its double-hourglass parterres, has been well preserved since it was established. The house sits in a shallow sunken well, granting light to the semi-raised basement and making it seem that the building is rising from below ground level. A bold but simple double gallery covers the entire rear elevation of the house and an elaborate covered iron balcony faces Charlton Street to the south. The carriage house served as the first national headquarters of the Girl Scouts, whose founder, Juliette Gordon Low, lived in the main house. The adjacent courtyard garden was designed in 1969 by Clermont Lee.