Property

Location Information
(for the Captain Thomas Speight House)

Name:

Captain Thomas Speight House ["Magnolia House"]

Address:

403 Union Street, North

City/County:

Ripley, Tippah County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1880

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Ripley (2005)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

240

Context/Comments

This is a well preserved and rather ornate two-story wood-frame house with Eastlake detailing, but at the time of its documentation in March 2001 it was clad in vinyl siding. Thomas Spight (1841-1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1898 to 1911. He was also the founder of the Southern Sentinel newspaper. He died in 1924 at the age of 82.