It is located in the southwestern civic block of Oglethorpe Square and was built in the 1840s[1] as rental property for Mary Marshall.

[1] A structure on the same lot, but which faced onto East President Street, is visible in Historic American Buildings Survey photographs taken in the mid-20th century.

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

[2] In 1964, Walter C. Hartridge wrote: "This trust lot, which is bounded by Abercorn and Drayton Streets, contains two buildings that are among the finest structures of the Greek Revival period in the United States.

[3] Hartridge also stated, incorrectly, that the property was designed by Charles B. Cluskey, although he could have been responsible for its early form that was later expanded upon.