The childhood home of play-wright Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams, this building retains its original appearance above the level of new foundation walls. The house’s distinctive features include multiple steep cross gables with jigsawn vergeboards and brackets, slender chamfered porch columns with foliated jig-sawn capitals, and cast-iron cresting atop the main gable. Rather than vertical board-and-batten siding common to wooden Gothic Revival buildings, the walls display a variety of treatments: flush boards at the entrance, diagonal board panels above the brick base and beneath the second-floor windows, horizontal lapped siding, and board-and-batten panels with picket-pattern skirts in the gables. This richness of textures suggests a Stick Style sensibility or even late-nineteenth-century Queen Anne. In 1995 the house was moved here from its original site at 318 2nd Avenue S. to serve as a visitor center.