Property

Location Information
(for the Sykes-Leigh House)

Name:

Sykes-Leigh House ["Rosewood Manor," "Fairleigh Manor"]

Address:

719 7th Street, North

City/County:

Columbus, Lowndes County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1838

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

No. of Stories:

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

14 Mar 1985

View National Register Nomination Form

Context/Comments

A two- story, double-pile, side-gabled brick Greek Revival house with a broad three-bay facade. It now has a monumental distyle portico, but this is a replacement (the original portico having been replaced by an Eastlake porch in the late 19th century).

This house was listed individually on the National Register on 14 March 1985.

It is included in "A Guide to Early American Homes – South" (1956) (p. 134, as Fairleigh Manor), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (p. 22, as Rosewood Manor), and "Reflections: Homes and History of Columbus, Mississippi" (2001) (pp. 40-43, as Rosewood Manor). It is also included in an article in "Colonial Homes" magazine (April 1988).