Charles H. Webb choose the site of the mid-19th-century home of Joseph Pickens for his new home in 1908.  This home was built in the manner of the earlier classic Greek Revival colossal portico homes, reflecting the perfect symmetry of the style-prescribed floor plan, balcony with tiered-effect doors, a “widow’s walk” roof railing-and yet a mission-style stair-railing and large-paned front windows suggest the actual era of the home.