Merchant and Civil War veteran James R. Stevens built this frame I-house soon after the war’s end. The porch combines a two-story central portico with flanking one-story galleries on paneled box columns. Greek Revival elements are dominant in the dentiled entablature and pedimented door and window surrounds, while Italianate paired brackets adorn the columns. An unusually large number of nineteenth-century outbuildings remain in the informally landscaped garden, including two lattice gazebos, two cisterns, a kitchen/cook’s quarters, a smokehouse, and a privy. The Magnolias was the home of Susan Blue Buchanan, the first female attorney to practice before Mississippi’s Supreme Court and the first woman to join (1918) the Mississippi State Bar Association.