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THOMAS AND REBECCA BATCHELOR HOUSE

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1827; 1959 restored, Beverley Martin. Lower Centreville Rd. at Street Rd., 5 miles south of MS 48

Only twenty years after his group of settlers arrived from the Carolinas, Thomas and Rebecca Batchelor built this substantial house to oversee their extensive cotton plantations (at his death he owned more than a hundred adult slaves). At first glance it is a typical side-gabled planter’s cottage, raised on brick piers with a full undercut gallery on chamfered posts, but its asymmetry is unusual, and its Federal style is a rare survival from this early period. Double-leaf doors with double-hung sash sidelights lead into the off-center hall, which is flanked by a dining room and a large ornate parlor. In 1959 Natchez architect Beverley Martin directed a restoration that reconstructed the three pilastered dormers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "THOMAS AND REBECCA BATCHELOR HOUSE", [Liberty, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND12.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 26-26.

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