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ERWIN HOUSE

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c. 1830. E. Lake Washington Rd. at Erwin Rd.

The area’s oldest structure is this house of Junius R. Ward, who purchased the land in 1829. Although from Kentucky, Ward built a typical Mississippi planter’s cottage, a one-and-a-half-story wooden house with a gallery inset under a broken-slope roof, a dormer, and a center-hall plan. Ward’s daughter, Matilda, married Johnson Erwin, whose family home was the nearby Mount Holly (1858) an opulent, brick Italianate villa, now a ruin after a June 2015 fire.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "ERWIN HOUSE", [Chatham, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR4.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 101-101.

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