This home was built for Dr. Joseph Fickling Johnson with bricks from his own Lady's Island plantation on Brickyard Point. The house is made of brick covered with a thin layer of plaster, and is one of Beaufort's most romantic houses. The color is elusive, seeming to dance with the landscape to take on the colors around it. It appears to blush as the tide comes calling. The house was used as a hospital during the Civil War and Dr. Johnson was fortunately able to pay back taxes and reacquire the house after the war. It remained in Dr. Johnson's family until 1981 and recently went through a painstaking restoration by the current owners.