As my friend Connie Kruger pointed out, all of us who grew up in Fitzgerald from the 1960s to the 1980s thought of this as a “haunted house”; it was dilapidated and foreboding for most of those years. About 20 years ago it was restored and expanded for use as a personal care home, and thus, saved. The house was built by a Dr. Russell; apparently, his health was not good and the family was unable to maintain the house. They moved into a smaller property next door and operated the house as the Russell Apartments for a time.

The house is no longer being used as a care facility and if properly restored, the added modern wing would need to be removed.

South Main Street-South Lee Street Historic District, National Register of Historic Places