The Tupper-Barnett House is one of two national landmarks located in the city.

No home in Georgia has been photographed more than this splendid Greek Revival house of outstanding architecture. Nichols calls it ("The Early Architecture of Georgia") "the ultimate example of peristyle entirely wrapped around the house." No day passes but that tourists are seen with camera in hand, taking pictures of the mansion.

The Barnetts kept the house in prime condition and the towering trees add their stateliness to the elegant home, as does the brick and wrought-iron fence in front.

The site marks lot 18 of the original town and it is not known who built the first cottage here. William H Pope bought the property from his brother Alexander in 1832, and built the two-story eight-room federal style house. In the cottage in the yard, John, the blind shoemaker, lived. At his death, Mr. Pope made it legally incumbent upon each succeeding owner to be responsible for John.

In the 1840's, Washington philantropist, Francis Willis, lived here.

Early in the 1850's, the property was sold, first to Benjamin Bowdre, and then to John Semms. Ker Boyce bought the house and gave it to his daughter as a wedding present when she came with her husband, Dr. Henri Allen Tupper, who was to be pastor of the Baptist church. Dr. Tupper was so beloved that the Baptists were accused of loving the Lord next to Dr. Tupper and were called Tupperites. It was Dr. Tupper who added the peristyle doric collonnade which completely encircles the house with its 18 columns.

Eliza Francis Andrews says in her "Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl" that it was Dr. Tupper who pursued the Union commander in 1865 not to burn down the Robert Toombs house.

The house is not currently occupied is is awaiting a new owner.