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WILLIAMS-GLASS HOUSE

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c. 1843; 1850s east wing. 315 N. 2nd Ave.

This south-facing raised cottage with side-gabled roofs is the only extant house in Columbus known to have been built for free people of color. The original owners were brothers Isaac and Thomas Williams, the former a carpenter and the latter a blacksmith, so they possibly constructed their own house. The building has tall brick walls and piers on the ground floor, as well as brick chimneys, and a wooden second floor with clapboard siding. Elaborate jigsawn elements include porch handrails, brackets at column capitals, and vergeboards.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

MAIN STREET BUILDINGS
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS WELCOME CENTER (ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH RECTORY)
CITY HALL
ST. PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
U.S. POST OFFICE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "WILLIAMS-GLASS HOUSE", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR24.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 184-184.

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