Mahoney-McGarvey House, ca. 1891

This house was built from plans drawn by J. A. Wood, architect for the Plant railroad system, who designed and built the Tampa Bay Hotel and Brunswick's Oglethorpe Hotel. Though technically classified as an Exotic Revival structure, due to its Moorish influence, it is known as the finest example of Carpenter Gothic architecture in the State of Georgia. Carpenter Gothic is a term used to describe the variety of turned and pierced woodwork, available through the advance of, at that time, modern technology. The Mahoney family willed it to the McGarvey sisters who were good friends and early leaders in the preservation movement in Brunswick. They later had their business housed there, and at Virginia McGarvey's death, left it in trust, with the requirement that the building be preserved.