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HOUSES ON NORTH HUNTINGTON STREET

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c. 1850–c. 1888. 300–500 blocks of N. Huntington St.

The two-story, wooden Judge Henry C. Niles House (c. 1888; 305 N. Huntington; pictured), a blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival, is one of the more elaborate buildings in this residential neighborhood, having fluted Ionic columns, spindled balusters and vergeboards, and a polygonal tower with a mansard roof and iron cresting. Niles served as the state’s only federal judge from 1890 until his death in 1918. The one-story house (c. 1850; 401 N. Huntington), with side-by-side front doors and end-wall chimneys, was owned in the 1870s by the judge’s father, an early settler in the area who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. The facade at its undercut front porch is finished with flushboards, and the door and window surrounds are simplified versions of the popular Federal-style bulls-eye motif.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HOUSES ON NORTH HUNTINGTON STREET", [Kosciusko, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-CH22.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 208-208.

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