Property

Location Information
(for the "Holliday Haven")

Name:

"Holliday Haven" [John Holliday House]

Address:

609 (601) Meridian Street, South

City/County:

Aberdeen, Monroe County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1850

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

No. of Stories:

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

22 Feb 1988

NR District Name:

South Central Aberdeen (Boundary Increase #1) (2004)

NR Status:

Previously Listed

Element No.:

218

NR District Name:

South Central Aberdeen (Boundary Increase #2) (2017)

NR Status:

Previously Listed

Element No.:

86a

MPS:	Aberdeen Multiple Resource Area

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Context/Comments

Built about 1850, the John Holliday house is a two-story Greek Revival house with a monumental colonnade of paired columns across the façade.

It was individually listed on the National Register on 22 February 1988, as a component of the Aberdeen Multiple Resource Area. It was later included as a "previously listed" element (element #218) in the South Central Aberdeen Historic District Boundary Increase #1, which was added to the National Register on 10 September 2004, and more recently as a contributing element (element #86a) in the South Central Aberdeen Historic District Boundary Increase #2, which was added to the National Register on 28 September 2017.

It is included in "A Guide to Early American Homes – South" (1956), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 140), and "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (pp. 53-54).

[HABS: MS-70 (1936)]

Brief Description

Two-story, central passage Greek Revival I-house with an asphalt-shingled hipped roof. The original c.1850 I-house is rectangular in shape with a central hall flanked by one room on either side. An exterior brick chimney is centered on the north elevation of the original house. A wide molded wood cornice surrounds the original I-house. The c.1850 I-house is clad in weatherboard siding on the side elevations. The facade (east) features prominent fluted pilasters, wood paneling, and wide decorative window and door surrounds. A full-width, two-story gallery occupies the facade and is recessed beneath the principal roof. The gallery features prominent fluted Doric columns and molded frieze and cornice. The facade is symmetrical three bays (W, D, W) on both floors. The entry door is two-leaf, wood paneled, with sidelights and multi-light transom. A wide, molded entablature extends above the doorway. The sidelights are flanked by molded pilasters. A matching doorway is directly above with a balcony. Windows on the facade are 6/6 flanked by 2/2 double-hung wood sash. Heavy moldings, corner blocks, and paneled aprons adorn the windows on the facade. Side elevation windows are 6/6 double-hung wood sash. A large, nearly full-width, two-story c.1920 addition projects in the rear. It is clad in drop siding, features a plain cornice, and primary windows are 1/1 double-hung wood sash. Three exterior brick chimneys are on the rear addition. All windows on the house, with the exception of the facade, feature wood-louvered shutters.