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SUNSET HILL

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1847; 1853 remodeled. 803 W. Commerce St.

In 1853, planter William Reed Cunningham remodeled and expanded this two-story wooden house to have a giant-order, full-width, wraparound portico with fluted Doric columns and entablature. Mississippi Supreme Court justice, U.S. congressman, Confederate general, and literary figure Reuben Davis lived here after the Civil War until his death in 1890. Davis is best known for his autobiographical work, Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians (1889), which is a revealing source for conditions in the South during the mid-nineteenth-century.

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, "SUNSET HILL", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR9.

Print Source

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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