| The house now called “Merrehope” began in 1858 when Richard McLemore has a small house built on the site for his daughter Juriah and her husband W.H. Jackson. About 1881 a two-story High Victorian Italianate villa was built, reportedly incorporating the original house as a rear wing. In 1904 the house was enlarged and remodeled to its present form. It was acquired in 1968 by the Meridian Restoration Foundation, which named it “Merrehope.” Merrehope was listed on the National Register on 9 Dec 1971. It was later included as element #149 in the Merrehope Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 19 September 1988. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark, at the request of the Meridian Restoration Foundation, on 14 June 1995. The house is included in "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (pp. 32-34, with interior photographs) and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (pp. 221, EM22). |