Next to the Sherwood house at 45 Westway. Road is a veritable temple to commerce, the home built by Captain Henry Perry in the Greek revival style in 1832.

Perry, who must have been a fashionable young man, was one of the first to build in the new Grecian style in Southport. With its tall slender columns topped by ionic capitals, its fan -shaped window graced with an American eagle in the gable, its leaded glass side lights and transom setting off the doorway. This was a house built to impress the neighbors.

A nearly identical twin to this house, built for Perry's brother, still stands next door to the Pequot Library.