Colonel Short's Villa, at 1448 Fourth Street, was built by Henry Howard for Kentucky Colonel Robert Short in 1859. The Italian-Renaissance house is best known for its ironwork fence, incorporating a morning glory and cornstalk motifs. The story goes that Short's wife complained of missing the cornfields in her native Iowa, so he bought her the cornstalk fence. A revisionist explanation supplied by a recent owner is that the wife saw that it was the most expensive fence in the building catalog and requested it. Unlike a similar cornstalk fence on Royal Street, this one has not been painted and shows its original colors. In September 1863, the Union Troops seized Colonel Short's Villa. Second Civil War occupational governor Nathaniel Banks was quartered here. The house was returned to its owners after the war. Garden District National Register #71000358 (1971)