Physician and planter George Augustus Sykes built this two-story, wooden, Greek Revival residence with stout paneled portico columns and pilasters. The columns are so widely spaced that the ensemble resembles a giant gateway. Under the entablature, jigsawn millwork displays vaguely Gothic motifs. To the rear of the house stands a Carpenter Gothic wooden carriage house and stables with steep gables and jigsawn vergeboards.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OLD HOMESTEAD", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR8.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 177-177.
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