This home was designed and built between 1853 and 1861 at a cost of $93,000 by architect John Norris. It is an example of Gothic Revival style and has a cast-iron porch, oriel windows and an imposing front cast-iron fence. The property's first owner was Charles Green, a cotton merchant.

After the Union troops captured Savannah in 1864, General Sherman occupied the house and used it as his headquarters until the end of the Civil War.  According to legend, the ladies of the congregation, offended by the next-door presence of the enemy Yankee, rang the bells without pause, through the night. Sherman responded by having the bells removed.

In 1892, local politician and judge Peter Meldrim purchased the property and lived in it a number of decades. In 1943, his heirs sold the house to the St. John's Episcopal Church, which is located next door.

This house isn't on the "haunted" list nor most haunted tours, but many visitors have sensed ghosts. It is generally when they go into the dining room at back of the house that they get a headache and some get nauseous. Visitors say they sense a female ghost, and that it is like she doesn't want people in HER home. Some believe this is the wife of Charles Green.