| Built for Charles H. Manship, who as mayor surrendered the city of Jackson to Gen. William T. Sherman, July 16, 1863. Served as temporary headquarters of Confederate Gen. John S. Adams and was bounded on the north by Confederate fortifcations of the city. Excellent example of residential Gothic Revival architecture and one of few antebellum Jackson houses to survive. The design of the facade, or west elevation, is clearly derived from Figure 128 in Andrew Jackson Downing's influential pattern book "The Architecture of Country Houses" (1850). It was listed on the National Register on 18 October 1972, and it was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 15 January 1986. This house is included in "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp.79-80), "Jackson Landmarks" (1982) (p.82), "The State of Mississippi – Historic Properties" (1982) (p. 11), "Jackson (Images of America)" (1998) (p. 45), "Great Houses of Mississippi" (2004) (pp.102-106), "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (pp.55-56), "Chimneyville: Likenesses’ of Early Days in Jackson, Mississippi" (2007) (p. 50), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.256, JM40). |