Location Information
(for the Golloday House)
Name:Golloday House
Address:501 Margin Street
City/County:Grenada, Grenada County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1855
Architectural Styles(s):Greek Revival
Registration Information
NR District Name:Margin Street (1988)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:25
    MPS:Grenada Multiple Resource Area
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Grenada Downtown Historic District
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Context/Comments
This fine two-story Greek Revival house with a monumental colonnade was built about 1855.

It is included as a contributing element (element #25) in the Margin Street Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 7 April 1988, as a part of the Grenada Multiple Resource Area.

This house is included in "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (pp. 133-134, as the Townes House) and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.141, in the listing for Houses on Margin Street, NC3).
Brief Description
Two-story wood frame Greek Revival style residence with hipped roof and two-story collonaded porch. Asphalt roof shingles and tongue-in-groove wood siding. Projecting full-width porch is supported by octagonal Doric columns. Two integral brick chimneys. Five-bay symmetrical facade (W,W,D,W,W) with central entrance and matching second-floor entrance with a small cantilevered balcony with wood picket railing. Windows are 6/9 double-hung wood sash. Door is wood with a large plate-glass light over two panels. Three-light over one-panel sidelights, and a seven-light transom. Wood entrance frieze with dentil molding at the cornice. The second floor entrance is identical with the exception of the door, which is solid wood and four-panels, and a more narrow divided transom. Second-floor windows are 6/6 double-hung wood sash. Brick porch decking and brick steps with iron side railings.
Historic Information
John Moore built this house for Mr. George Golladay, whose wife died suddenly the night before their daughter's wedding in the house. The wedding was immediately changed to a funeral where the casket lay in the room decorated for the wedding. In 1861, Mr. Golladay opened his home to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, who used it as his headquarters. A 12 year-old Golladay daughter 'accidentally' shot and killed a Union Officer on the front steps of the house. Golladay's granddaughter was strangled and left on the upstairs bathroom floor in May 1932 as an elderly woman.