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HENRY STRONG HOUSE

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c. 1858. 1271 Antique Ln.

A stereotypical Carolina I-House, the two-story, clapboard Henry Strong House has one-story full-length galleries along both front and back walls. Floor-length windows flanking the center-hall entrance on the first floor allow passage from the interior to the porch and help ventilate the house in summer. Battered and eared door and window trim and Tuscan columns on the porch lend Greek Revival sophistication. Henry Strong, a native of South Carolina, believed so strongly in the Confederate cause that he refused to live under the Reconstruction government; after the Civil War, he and his family emigrated to Brazil to help found the colony that became Americana in São Paulo. His experience is recounted in Letters from a Confederate Soldier and Others to Miss Sally Strong, 1862–1869 (2001).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (WHITWORTH COLLEGE)
U.S. POST OFFICE
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HENRY STRONG HOUSE", [Brookhaven, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-SC15.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 294-294.

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