Marks House was built by William Matthews Marks, who immigrated from Oglethrope County, Georgia, on acreage purchased from the U.S. land office in Cahaba, Alabama, for $1.25 per acre. Its foundation is pegged-together heart pine, its framing is 3" by 9" timbers, and its mantles, dados, and all the brick are hand made. The Churchill Marks family added kitchens, baths, a rose garden, and a pavilion for dancing in the 1920s. Dr. Haywood B. (Woody) Bartlett purchased the house in 1957. In 1967, the movie of Truman Capote's "Thanksgiving Visitor" was filmed in the house. The building has served as the Pike Road Community Club Center since 1968, and the Pike Road Arts and Crafts fair is held there annually on the first Saturday in November. The house suffered extensive fire damage on August 28, 1997, and was subsequently restored by the Pike Road Community.