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WALNUT HILLS

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c. 1875; 2010 side addition. 1214 Adams St.

This raised one-story clapboard house shows the evolution of the center-hall double-pile planter’s cottage after the Civil War, when low-sloped hipped and even pyramidal roofs supplanted the side-gabled form of the antebellum period. Stylish Italianate trim adorns the full undercut gallery, which is supported on wooden pierced piers, a common detail in Vicksburg during the 1870s. Probably meant to mimic decorative ironwork, the piers are composed of two 2 × 4 wooden posts connected with open panels or scrollwork and are often further decorated with lacy brackets, a jigsawn balustrade, and a dentiled or modillioned cornice, as seen next door on the two-story brick side-hall town house at 1208 Adams, built c. 1870.

Writing Credits

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

HISTORIC ST. FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL AND CONVENT
BALFOUR HOUSE
BAER HOUSE
BECK HOUSE
WARREN COUNTY COURTHOUSES

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "WALNUT HILLS", [Vicksburg, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-YB16.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 77-78.

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