Outside their expansive home on the Ogeechee River, Henry and Clara Ford built this as the single most imposing structure of their time in Richmond Hill from 1926 to 1951. Built by local labor in 1936 near the Ways Station School, the Community House served residents in the enhancement of their educational, social, and cultural development. Cooking, home economics, sewing, dancing, and other activities were taught here at no cost to adults and children alike. It also hosted local social activities, many attended by the Fords themselves.