The Scudder-Lewis House, also known as the Ward B. Lewis Jr. House, is located at 490 South Milledge Avenue (Tax Parcel No. 12-2-D2-A-001A) on the northeast corner of Baxter Street.
 

This two-story Queen Anne style building has an irregular plan and exuberant ornamentation. The complex-roof shape includes a polygonal turret-capped tower. While weatherboard clads the first floor, coursed shingles distinguish the upper story. A decorative front gable surmounts the entryway and the large front porch that wraps around the facade. Other features include dentils and Doric columns, lace-like brackets and sawnwork, distinctive uses of a diamond motif, and a row of three arched stained glass windows. The northwest corner of the house displays a gable-on-hip kitchen, which was incorporated into the main building. Behind the main house a carriage house, with a square vented cupola and decorative door hoods, once served as domestic servants quarters.

Charles Alexander Scudder and his wife, Nina Wilkins Scudder, purchased the property from the estate of Mary A. Hughes on December 7, 1893. At that time a one-and-a-half room cottage stood on the property. The Scudders renovated and enlarged the building into the elaborate Queen Anne house, which remained their home until 1963. During the next eighteen years, various owners rented out the place as a rooming house and as a fraternity house, which resulted in deterioration from neglect. In 1981 Ward and Erika Lewis bought the place, restored the main house, and renovated the carriage house for studio use three years later.

The Scudder-Lewis House has been locally designated as a Historic Landmark (December 6, 1994).