This brick “cottage” is Lynchburg's best example of antebellum Gothic Revival. Built for a prominent druggist, originally from Alexandria, Virginia, its design could have been (and probably was) taken from a handbook by Alexander Jackson Davis, A. J. Downing, or Samuel Sloan. Hood moldings cap the windows, and a large, diamond-paned arched window centers the steeply pitched central pavilion. As was often the case with Gothic Revival “cottages,” the house is deceptively large. The felicitous and florid cast-iron porch and entrance steps, as well as the iron cresting on the roof, date from 1880.