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East Oglethorpe Avenue, facing south, ending at Lincoln Street. Four houses that were within hours of being demolished in 1960 for their valuable Savannah grey bricks and marble steps. The carriage houses had already been leveled when Polly Tucker (Mrs. F. Bland Tucker) brought the news that someone was about to start wrecking the four exceptional brick houses built by Mary Magdalene Leaver Marshall. Four pioneer preservationists - Albert Stoddard, Lee Adler, Karl Roebling and Harry Duncan - moved quickly to buy all four houses, thus realising one of the early victories of the Historic Savannah Foundation, Inc. One of the house was occupied by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Conrad Aiken and his wife Mary when they returned to Savannah in 1962.