Physician and planter Walter Ross Wade’s meticulous journal documenting the construction costs for his plantation house provides a rare and valuable record of the building trades in antebellum Mississippi. This is the only surviving house from David Shroder’s practice, which included Windsor (ND79) and Highland (1856). Born in Maryland, he was listed as a master mechanic in the 1860 census, and his household contained twenty white artisans. Here, at Rosswood, Shroder used a variant of the Natchez mansion form: a cubic, two-story, frame, center-hall, double-pile house with a Greek Revival giant-order Tuscan portico and newly fashionable paired brackets. He documented his work with “D. Shroder Builder ’57” painted inside above the front door. Now a bed-and-breakfast, Rosswood sits on a rise in rolling terrain that hints at the open fields that allowed planters to put their houses on display for passersby. A serpentine wall by E. Kaufman of Port Gibson fronts the property.