Built for Walker Brooke, who served in the U.S. Senate and later the Confederate Congress, this Greek Revival house with a two-story temple front takes a three-part Palladian form. The battered box columns that support the undercut double porch rise into picturesque capitals composed of spreading jigsawn leafy brackets, probably a postbellum alteration. The effect is of a sheltering hammock of trees, a rustic rather than classical decoration. The punched and jigsawn balustrade on the second level completes the airy effect.
Across the street at 103 Church Street, the stern classical temple of First Presbyterian Church (1925) faces the picturesque Carpenter Gothic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (1900; 402 Tchula), which has an octagonal corner tower.