Real estate listings date this house to 1833, and I imagine its present Craftsman appearance dates to the ownership of the Young family, circa 1909. 1833 is very early, even for Thomasville, so I wish I could learn more about the house. I suspect it was much smaller when built.

The Jack Hadley Black History Museum notes that the Young family raised their six children in the home. “The downstairs consisted of 13 rooms, reserved for the family. The nine bedrooms upstairs were used for renters, until the end of segregation…When entertainers such as Silas Green from the New Orleans Minstrel Show came to town, the cast stayed at this house, and the over-flow stayed at the house next door. Quartets such as “The Southerners” and the Harlem Globetrotters stayed at the Young’s home on…occasion. Many men who worked on seasonal jobs, railroad men, traveling salesmen, etc., rented rooms upstairs by the week. Prior to 1909, this home was rumored to have been a brothel owned by a Caucasian woman.”

The house was briefly known as the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum, but I don’t know it’s status at this time.