| A two-story, wood-frame, double-pile Greek Revival house with a five-bay façade, the Gillespie-Jackson house is locally significant to Starkville and Oktibbeha County as one of the largest and most architecturally ambitious of the few surviving antebellum houses in the county. Built in 1850, it has a pedimented, one-bay, monumental tetrastyle portico of square box columns in the center of the the façade. Its form is a traditional "Georgian double-pile" or "four-over-four" with vernacular Greek Revival stylistic treatment. This house was individually listed on the National Register on 6 November 1986, from a nomination prepared by Richard Cawthon, chief architectural historian for MDAH. It is included in "A Guide to Early American Homes – South" (1956) (p.133) and "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (pp. 43-44). |