Early Supper at the Adam Short House

ONE OF TWO adjoining buildings built by Adam Short in 1853, this house on Calhoun Square follows the typical mid-century pattern of two stories, three bays wide, over a raised basement, with a high stoop at one of the end bays. Short was a bricklayer who built the houses on speculation. Calhoun Square was one of the last of James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan to be formed. The Short houses sold quickly — and twice — in a matter of months.