The home is made of bricks with a white plaster overlay, and -- no matter how often it was painted -- the pink from the brick always bled through and stained the white plaster. It reportedly annoyed the heck out of the original owner, James Habersham, Jr. (The man did NOT want to live in a pink house, so he constantly repainted it!) In the early 1900s, the owner at the time finally gave in and painted it the beautiful shade of pink you see today.