| Name: | Chalmers-Horn-McAuley House ["Thistledome"] |
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| Address: | 118 Highway 309 South |
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| City/County: | Byhalia, Marshall County |
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| Construction Date: | 1840,1906 |
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| Architectural Styles(s): | Neoclassical |
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| NR District Name: | Byhalia (1996) |
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Two-story, hipped roof, frame house with Colossal columns and L-shaped porch. Masonry patterned chimneys are located on north and sound ends of house. Front facing gable porch roof is supported by Colossal Corinthian fluted columns on brick stretcher course piers. Pedimented porch roof has decorative brackets and a round window. Decorative brackets are also found at the roof line and continue across the
entablature of the porch pediment. Windows on the second story are fixed with stain glass borders. The second-story front facade has a porch which has a spindle balustrade. The central entrance has an elliptical transom with sunburst molding and leaded glass in diamond and painted pane sidelights. A porch on the first story which is L-shaped is supported by double Doric columns and spindle balustrade.
The first-story windows are 1/1 double hung. The south end of the L porch has flat roof supported by Doric columns and balustrade. There is a circular drive which approaches that entrance. |
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| A. L. Chalmers came from South Carolina and built a small house here in 1840. E. B. Horn purchased the house from Chalmers in 1906 and moved the building which originally faced north to face east. It was at that time that the building was remodeled in the Classical Revival style. The original kitchen cistern is still in place. The McAuleys bought the house in 1938. The name, "Thistledome," actually means "This will do me." The building is significant as one of the oldest, grandest Classical Revival buildings in Byhalia. |
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