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A stereotypical Carolina I-House, the two-story, clapboard Henry Strong House has one-story full-length galleries along both front and back walls. Floor-length windows flanking the center-hall entrance on the first floor allow passage from the interior to the porch and help ventilate the house in summer. Battered and eared door and window trim and Tuscan columns on the porch lend Greek Revival sophistication. Henry Strong, a native of South Carolina, believed so strongly in the Confederate cause that he refused to live under the Reconstruction government; after the Civil War, he and his family emigrated to Brazil to help found the colony that became Americana in São Paulo. His experience is recounted in Letters from a Confederate Soldier and Others to Miss Sally Strong, 1862–1869 (2001).