Property

Location Information
(for the Luckett Compound, Building A)

Name:

Luckett Compound, Building A

Address:

1116 Crawford Street

City/County:

Vicksburg, Warren County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1835

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

No. of Stories:

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

28 Jul 1983

NR District Name:

Uptown Vicksburg (1993)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

NR District Name:

Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2 (2020)

NR Status:

Previously Listed

Element No.:

View National Register Nomination Form

Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Historic Vicksburg District

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Context/Comments

The Luckett Compound is a complex of three antebellum, vernacular Greek Revival buildings and a fourth newer building. The layout of the four buildings is unusual in that they apparently were separate structures designed for separate functions. The complex was the home of an early Vicksburg physician, Dr. Thomas Jefferson Harper, so perhaps some concepts of health care may have dictated the layout of this home. The lot was originally a full acre and was divided in the 1870s. A re-survey of the area in 2007 indicated that all four buildngs had undergone a complete re-hab in 2006 (as a federal and state tax credit project).

The complex was listed on the National Register on 28 July 1983, from a nomination prepared by Sally L. Bowyer, who was at that time the director of the Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation. The four buildings of the Luckett Compound were later included as elements #42, #43, #44, and #45 in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 19 August 1993, and they were was more recently included as elements #46, #47, #48, and #49 in the Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2, which was added to the National Register on 4 February 2020.

The Luckett Compound is included in Historic Vicksburg Walking Tour Guide (1987) (#21, p. 19).

[HABS: MS-117 (1936)]

Brief Description

A two-story, clapboard and brick Greek Revival residence, facing west, with an asphalt-covered gable roof. The L-shaped two-tiered gallery extends across the west and north facades. On the north this gallery is recessed under the main roof, and on the west it is covered by a shed roof with a plain cornice. The gallery is supported by square, wood columns on both tiers and the second story porch is enclosed with a plain balustrade. There are three bays on each floor a single-leaf, glazed door with sidelights and transom flanked by six-over-six, double-hung windows that are shuttered.