[1] Located in the northeastern residential block of Reynolds Square, it is one of the city's oldest continuously running bars, having been in operation as such since 1852.

[4][5][6] In a survey for Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.

[7] In 2019, a site plan submitted to the City of Savannah included moving the building (and two adjacent structures) two blocks to allow for the construction of a hotel.

Norway native Thomas Hansen (1833–1896) opened a saloon on the building's ground floor shortly after its 1852 construction.

[11] The tradition followed on from when an inebriated customer could not afford to pay for the drinks he had consumed, and instead asked the bartender for a napkin and pen, on which he drew "an impressive" portrait of the 16th United States president.