It comprises the western half of a Second Empire baroque townhouse known as the Thomas–Purse Duplex,[1] located in the northeastern residential block of Monterey Square.

[2] Meanwhile, Savannah's Historic Preservation Commission's definition of “exceptional importance” refers to structures built outside of 1870–1923.

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

His family later moved to another duplex, the Abraham Smith & Herman Traub building at 210 East Gaston Street, where Thomas died in 1916.

[1] Its courtyard features a reproduction of Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss sculpture that was on exhibition at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.