It was the last surviving two-story Classical Revival house in Odum.

[1][2] It was built by carpenter Paul Edward McCall for James Colquitt Ritch (1869–1944), on a corner location.

It was later the home of Miss Essie Moody Carter, who by 1988 had lived there for about 65 years.

Miss Essie married Joe Martin, a telephone linesman, in 1937.

This article about a property in Georgia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.