The Presbyterian Manse, also known as the Albin Chase House or the Reed House, is located at 185 North Hull Street (Tax Parcel No. 17-1-A5-C-001) between Broad and Clayton streets.
 

This two-story brick with scored-stucco building exhibits a raised basement and a central hall plan with a four-over-four room arrangement. Slightly Federal in character, the residence also represents the Greek Revival style, evidenced by a slightly raised temple portico possessing Doric columns, a full entablature with triglyphs and metopes, and pilasters. The entrance features a transom and sidelights with muntins arranged in a rectangular lattice pattern. In the rear of the dwelling, a combination kitchen and servants' house is now adjoined to another building.

Born in New Hampshire, Albin Chase arrived in Athens in the 1830s and constructed the dwelling in 1840-1841. Chase purchased and edited an Athens newspaper, which he renamed the Southern Banner, that became the forerunner of the present Athens Banner-Herald. Chase and Dr. John Linton established one of the South's early paper mills, the Pioneer Paper Mill on the Middle Oconee River. Chase served as manager for this business and as secretary for the Southern Mutual Insurance Company. The house, subsequently owned by the Deupree family in the 1860s and 1870s, became the property of the youngest daughter, Lucy Grattan Deupree, and her husband, Goodloe Yancey, who rented it out when they moved to Atlanta. From 1888 to 1906, First Presbyterian Church owned the property and utilized the house as its manse. Now a mixed-use residential and commercial building, the Presbyterian Manse remains one of the few extant residences within the present downtown commercial area.

The Presbyterian Manse was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (GA-1112), is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (August 19, 1974), and has been locally designated as a Historic Landmark (February 2, 1988).