Greensboro Road once led to the now-extinct town of Greensboro, and Greensboro Street is a vestige of it. While now only a few blocks long, it is lined with a menagerie of buildings in styles fashionable from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Most notable is this house with a complex massing over a cruciform plan. In an unlikely but unified ensemble, it combines multiple stylistic features derived from Greek and Gothic revivals, Stick Style, and Queen Anne. The features include lapped siding, a shouldered entrance frontispiece, brick porch piers, openwork porch columns with jigsawn capitals, imbricated shingles at the semipolygonal dormer, and jig-sawn vergeboards with spindles.
Across the street at 401 Greensboro, the Jacobean Revival former high school (1927, C. H. Lindsley) was renovated as Starkville’s school district offices in 1987.