Crugar, a cotton merchant and planter from a wealthy New York family, built this imposing house on the innermost tything lot facing the square, but placed it thirty feet from Bull Street, allowing for a walled side garden. The house is also slightly recessed from the Taylor Street lot line, to allow the entrance staircase to be perpendicular to the facade, in a manner unusual for Savannah town houses on tything lots. The front stair boasts magnificent cast-iron newel posts adorned by pelicans. The lot was expanded to the west and the recessed western wing was added before 1888. The facade displays high-quality hard-pressed imported red bricks with meticulously narrow mortar joints, while the west elevation shows the use of less-refined local bricks. Architect Daniel E. Snyder designed the laser-cut metal fence (2008) as part of the restoration, completed by Bloomquist Construction. The neighboring house at 10 W. Taylor (1852; 1904 and 1916 remodeled) introduces an exotic note to the square with its Spanish Colonial Baroque gables and Florentine-style ironwork.