Location Information
(for the Purnell, James C. House)
Name:Purnell, James C. House
Address:504 Summit Street
City/County:Winona, Montgomery County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1873
Architectural Styles(s):Greek Revival
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:12 Jul 1990
NR District Name:Winona (2015)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:526a
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Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Winona Historic District
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Context/Comments
A wood-frame vernacular late Greek Revival I-house with Italianate features. It has a three-bay façade with paired windows, a tetrastyle portico, and a bracketed cornice.

The house was individually listed on the National Register on 18 December 1979, and was later included as a previously-listed element (element #526-a) in the Winona Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 June 2015.

This building is included in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 194, in the listing for Italianate I-houses on Summit Street, CH5).
Brief Description
A two-story, wood, Greek Revival and Italianate I-house, with a full height portico supported by four Doric columns and two pilasters with a continuous brick foundation. The building is topped with a tiled side-gable roof from which extends a centered pediment crowning the portico. The facade is three-bays (W-paired; D-paired; W-paired). The main doors are wood-paneled with wooden screen doors and are surrounded by leaded sidelights and a divided-light transom. The windows are paired 4/4 wood sash with louvered shutters and topped with pointed molded lintels. The building is clad in wood weatherboard and has a paired bracket adorned cornice. A centered cantilevered balcony supported by two large brackets, with a decorative sawnwork balustrade, projects from the second story. Two brick ridge chimneys are present on the main gable. Diamond-shaped sawnwork vents are centered in the end gables.
Historic Information
Building along with outbuildings are shown on the 1925 Sanborn Map.