Built as the home of slave-trader and banker Robert S. Adams and subsequently owned by physician A. H. French, this two-story, wooden Greek Revival house with a portico of giant-order, paired, fluted Ionic columns is so large and has such a spacious ballroom that it long served as Aberdeen’s Masonic temple. Wrought iron at the balconies came from the Jones-McElwain Foundry in Holly Springs.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "ADAMS-FRENCH HOUSE", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR4.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 175-176.
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