Location Information
(for the "Shamrock")
Name:"Shamrock" [Porterfield House]
Address:2020 Oak Street
City/County:Vicksburg, Warren County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1851
Architectural Styles(s):Greek Revival
No. of Stories:2
Destroyed:demolished c.1936
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Historic Vicksburg District
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Context/Comments
An enormous brick house on a high raised basement, with grand colonnades on front and back. It was being used as a boarding house in 1907 and 1913, and for storage in 1925. It was demolished in 1936.

This house is included in "William Nichols, Architect, " by Peatross and Mellown (1979), "Lost Mansions of Mississippi" (1996) (pp. 36-38), "Vicksburg: Town and Country" (2001) (p.19), and "The Architecture of William Nichols" (2015) (pp. 260-264).

[HABS: MS-17-2 (nine pages of measured drawings, plus a cover sheet, drawn in 1934; and one exterior photo made by Ralph Clynne in March 1934)]