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STANHOPE

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1874, James Clark Harris. 503 Lexington St.

Commanding a hilltop over-looking the square, Stanhope is the most formal of Harris’s Carrollton houses, taking a Palladian tripartite form with a two-story hip-roofed tower flanked by one-story wings. A native of South Carolina, Harris was living in Carroll County by 1850, and around 1855 he completed Malmaison (burned 1942), the grand Greek Revival residence of Choctaw chief Greenwood Leflore located west of Carrollton. But Stanhope’s Italianate hooded windows, lacy iron balcony railing, and brackets with pendants show that Harris was moving away from his antebellum classical style to a more picturesque approach that he later developed as his personal brand.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

CARROLL COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND SQUARE
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "STANHOPE", [Carrollton, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-YB49.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 96-96.

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