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KYLE-SPENCER HOUSE

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1908, Andrew Johnson and John Wright Johnson. 109 McLaurin St.

The largest of Andrew Johnson’s houses demonstrates how, working with his son John Wright Johnson as the contractor, he adjusted to changes in architectural taste later in his career. It has a two-tiered, wraparound, Ionic-columned porch, an octagonal tower with a tent roof and iron cresting, and an elongated thermal window beneath the front gable.

Andrew Johnson built the one-story house (1873) at 111 Stonewall Street for his family, but many of its ornamental features are gone, and artificial siding has been applied. He also added the brackets and spindles to the Greek Revival Heflin House (1858; 304 S. Main Street), which is now the Heflin-Heritage House and Museum. John Wright Johnson is credited with designing and probably building the former Masonic Lodge (c. 1910; 103 S. Main) and Sardis Methodist Church (1908; 237 S. Main).

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, "KYLE-SPENCER HOUSE", [Sardis, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC5.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 141-142.

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