As a refugee of the Haitian Revolution, Andre Drouillard arrived from Saint-Domingue in 1793. After purchasing 207 acres to grow cotton, he built this coastal Creole cottage, which is the most completely documented example in the city. The cottage’s lack of alignment with the street (a rarity in Savannah) is due to the fact that it was built prior to the surrounding urban grid. Drouillard’s one-and-a-half-story house on a raised basement of Savannah Grey brick has a two-story front gallery integral with the double-pitched roof and a central-hall double-pile plan.