In 1847 Amma B. Chesnutt (1806-1887), the business partner of neighbor Alfred Johnson, built a large Greek Revival house here. The house changed hands after his death, and the exterior was remodeled into the Classical Revival sometime in the 1910 's. After numerous ownership changes, Taft and Cora Bass purchased the house in 1944. As it now stands, the house is a large five-bay-by-four-bay, two-story, double-pile house. On the northeast facade projects a two-story portico with paired, unfluted columns with Ionic capitals supporting the pedimented gable. Sheltered under the portico and wrapping around the northwest and southeast elevations is a one-story porch of Tuscan columns connected by a balustrade of rounded, column-shaped spindles. On the porch roof under the portico is the second-story porch, with railing similar to the first floor porch's. The house is contained under a low hip roof of standing seam metal, and is pierced with interior common bond brick chimneys. The shuttered sash are six-over-six, with battered and peaked surrounds with dog-ears. Especially pronounced are the surrounds on the doors, with the two central ones having trabeated transom and sidelights. On the rear west is a two-roam ell, with a porch along its southeast elevation. A single shed roam is on the rear south. The plaster, center hall interior was not remodeled in the 1910's, and retains its simple, restrained Greek Revival features. Mantels in the two front parlors are battered with dog-ears; the others are simpler pilaster-and-frieze forms. From the front of the hall, divided by the Basses, rises the staircase, with the molded railing being carried by double, turned balusters and terminating at a standard, turned and oversized newel. Interior door and window surrounds are flat and three part. The upstairs plan follows that of the first floor. At the rear of the house is a charming smokehouse, with a six-panel door having decorative, raised panels.