This charming home of the Victorian period with its delightful ornamentation, many gables, intricate carvings, reflects authentically the gala and carefree days of the 1890's when mode of dress and mode of living was sumpteous and elaborate, indeed.

The house is called New Haywood in memory of the white-columned original haywood which stood on the summit of the lane on the West side of this house. Haywood was first the home of Dr. Gilbert Hay, and then the home of the famous Andrews family of early Georgia. Eliza Francis Andrews was the first woman in the world to be invited to become a member of the International Academy of Scientists and she was invited to address the society in Milan, Italy. Many of the Andrewses were writers and their facile pens have added much to Georgia history and Washington legend and lore.

John Colley began the first haywood in the 1770's. Two of his sons were named France and Spain.

It was in original haywood that the first Episcopal communion was celebrated. On the grounds of the New Haywood stood two of the most historic buildings of early Washington: in the southeast corner of the front yard, in a small frame building, David and Sarah Hillhouse printed "The Washington Gazette" (1800-1816). In the soutwest corner of this yard, the first masonic building was erected in 1821.

During the gas rationing of WWII, Mrs. Barron Hill, who owned the New Haywood, brought out the old family surrey, and "Dandy" the chauffeur began driving horses again until the gas shortage was over.