[1][2] It stood at the corner of Abercorn Street and East Congress Street, in the southeastern residential/tything block of Reynolds Square, from around 1784 until the building's demolition in 1920.

It was replaced the following year by the Lucas Theatre.

[3] Lawrence Bradley, on behalf of the Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey, photographed the building in the first half of the 20th century.

[4] The home was built for Savannah's first mayor John Houstoun.

[3] Along with Habersham House and the William Hunter House, it was one of Reynolds Square's "grandes maisons."