Location Information
(for the "The Old Homestead")
Name:"The Old Homestead" [Dr. G. A. Sykes House]
Address:503 Commerce Street, West
City/County:Aberdeen, Monroe County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1852
Architectural Styles(s):Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:22 Feb 1988
    MPS:Aberdeen Multiple Resource Area
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Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Silk Stocking Row Historic District
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Context/Comments
A hip-roofed two-story wood-frame Greek Revival house. It has a five-bay façade and a hip-roofed distyle portico with Gothic spandrels.

This house was individually listed on the National Register on 22 February 1988, as a component of the Aberdeen Multiple Resource Area.

It is included in "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p.137), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (pp. 57-58), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.177, PR8).