Built between 1872 and 1883 by Agnes Jackson Simons to replace the original home established on this site by her parents, this building is a 1+1⁄2-story, cottage style frame house on a raised basement.

[1] This site was originally owned by James S. Guignard, a local white attorney, and sold to Ben DeLane in 1843.

With her second husband, William "Bill" Simons, Agnes demolished the original home and built the larger house which stands today.

[2] Though the end of Reconstruction would see South Carolina passing discriminatory Jim Crow laws against the state's black community, Agnes' entrepreneurial family carved out a relatively prosperous middle-class life at this site.

[2][5] However, a grassroots campaign led by Celia Mann's great-great-granddaughter, Robbie Atkinson, successfully persuaded the city to save the house.