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MAR MAC (JENKINS H. WELCH HOUSE)

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c. 1853. 23099 Dentville Rd., 2 miles northwest of Hazlehurst

Early Copiah County settler Jenkins H. Welch faced his house west on a rise overlooking the Raymond-Gallatin stagecoach road. He is said to have hired an English master builder, and the resulting center-hall planter’s cottage with end chimneys combines classical and picturesque details. The whimsical jigsawn woodwork is eye-catching: flat leafy balusters, large foliated brackets growing out of the square columns, and cornice, lintels, and pediment lined with paired brackets. The central entrance and jib doors and windows surrounded with pilasters and molded cornices against flush siding are Greek Revival.

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, "MAR MAC (JENKINS H. WELCH HOUSE)", [Hazlehurst, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-SC6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 289-289.

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