Built in 1854 for William B. Weaver, "Errollton" is architecturally notable as one of several houses in Columbus designed in a locally distinctive style that combines elements of the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles in a remarkable cohesive manner. The house was listed individually on the National Register on 16 November 1978, and it was later listed as an element (#339) of the in the South Columbus Historic District, which was placed on the National Register in 1982. It is included in "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 119), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (pp. 17-18), "Reflections: Homes and History of Columbus, Mississippi" (2001) (pp. 86-87), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.184, in the listing for Houses in South Columbus, PR25). [HABS: MS-103 (1936)] |