This house, located at the eastern end of Charleston's Kanawha City, was built between 1829 and 1831 for Colonel Henry Hewitt Wood (1810-1883), a prominent salt merchant, and his wife, Ann Ruffner Reynolds. The house is across the river from Malden, the center of the salt industry in the 1800s. Originally, the house was part of a large farm, but now it's surrounded by other homes. The house is privately owned and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.