Location Information
(for the Warren-Gunter-Guild-Simmons House)
Name:Warren-Gunter-Guild-Simmons House [Fairview Inn]
Address:734 Fairview Street
City/County:Jackson, Hinds County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1909
Architectural Styles(s):Colonial Revival
No. of Stories:2
Remodeling Date:1921
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:11 Jan 1979
NR District Name:Belhaven (2012)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:224a
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Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Belhaven Historic District
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Context/Comments
Built for Cyrus C. Warren in 1909, this house is significant for its historic association with the lumber industry which flourished in Jackson. Designed by prominent Chicago architects Spencer & Powers, the house features an unusual combination of Colonial Revival moldings and mantels and Mission-style built-in benches. The carriage barn is an apparently rare survivor of what was once a common adjunct to the turn-of-the-century house in Jackson. Noteworthy also are the remains of landscaping designed in 1922 by the St. Louis firm of Muskopf & Irish. In the 1950s, it was the home of William J. Simmons, founder of the White Citizens Council of Jackson. The former residence is now the Fairview Inn.

It was individually listed on the National Register on 11 January 1979, and it was later included as a “previously listed” element (element #224a) in the Belhaven Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 18 December 2012.

The house is included in "Jackson Landmarks" (1982) (p. 96) and "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (pp. 61-62).
Brief Description
Two-story, Colonial Revival style former residence, and now an inn, with a side facing gable roof of composition shingles on a stucco covered foundation. There is a central block to the building flanked by side wings. The central block has a full-width flat roof projecting entry porch supported by wood Temple of the Winds columns with square wood box columns at each end. The porch roof has a wood balustrade between wood box pedestals with the end ones having swag bas-relief. The porch deck is brick with brick steps. The facade has horizontal wood lap siding with corner boards and is nine-bay (W-Quadrupled, D, D, W, D, W, D, D, W-Quadrupled) and ten-bay (W-Quadrupled, W, W, W, D, W, W-Paired, W, W, W-Tripled) on the second floor. The quadrupled window unit on the far left on the first floor has 8/1 wood double hung sash. The rest of the windows on the first floor are 6/1 wood double hung sash. The doors are all double-leaf wood French doors with ten lights to each leaf and projecting hoods above, except for the central door which is the main entry door and is wood with leaded glass lights. Flanking the main entry door are wood Tuscan columns supporting carved brackets which in turn support a balcony with a turned balustrade between paneled wood box pedestals at the corners. The quadrupled window unit and the single windows on the second floor all have 8/1 wood double hung sash. The paired window has 4/1 wood double hung sash and the tripled window unit has 6/1 wood double hung sash. The door on the second floor is double-leaf wood with ten lights to each leaf. The wings on each end of the central block were previously one story porches and still have wood Tuscan columns visible, square on the left wing and round on the right wing. The porches were enclosed and the second story added in a 1921 remodeling of the house. There are three front facing gable roof dormers with 6/1 wood double hung sash on the roof of the central block. There is a painted brick chimney piercing the roof on the left side of the central block.