| The home of distniguished attorney and United State Senator James Zachariah George, one of two Mississippians honroed by representation in Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol. Aside from the historical importance of the nearly 900-acre estate, George's house is a remarkably complete regional expression of the Greek Revival style. Originally a small house built in the 1840s, it was reportedly enlarged to its present form after it was acquired by J. Z. George in 1861. It is now a double-pile, wood-frame Greek Revival house that has a colonnade of six square box-columns. The detached hexagonal library which he built in 1887 is one of the most remarkable and significant outbuildings in the state. This house was listed on the National Register on 9 June 1978. The listed property includes the house, the library, and 900 acres of land. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark, at the request of the owners, in 2010. Cotesworth is included in "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (p. 138), "Must See Mississippi" (2007) (pp.83-86), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (pp.96-97, YB51). [HABS: MS-111 (1936)] |