Myers-Hicks Place

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Myers-Hicks Place

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Location Mississippi Highway 309, Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.
Coordinates 34°49′47″N89°41′19″W / 34.82972°N 89.68861°W / 34.82972; -89.68861 Coordinates: 34°49′47″N89°41′19″W / 34.82972°N 89.68861°W / 34.82972; -89.68861
Built 1855
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 83000961 [1]
Added to NRHP March 7, 1983

Myers-Hicks Place, a.k.a. Holly Hill Farm, is a historic house in Byhalia, Mississippi, USA.

Byhalia, Mississippi Town in Mississippi, United States

Byhalia (bye-HAY-yah), pronounced "bye-HAIL-yah" by some residents, is a town in Marshall County, Mississippi. The population was 1,302 as of the 2010 census.

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Location

The house is located along Mississippi Highway 309 in Byhalia, a small town in Marshall County, Mississippi. [2] [3] [4]

Mississippi Highway 309 (MS 309) is a two-lane, north–south highway in Marshall County. It runs from the Mississippi–Tennessee state line south through western Marshall County to its southern terminus at MS 4, just east of the community of Chulahoma.

Marshall County, Mississippi County in the United States

Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,144. Its county seat is Holly Springs. The county is named for Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall.

History

Martine Pickett Myers acquired the land in 1850. [3] [4] The one-story house was built five years later, in 1855. [2] [3] It was designed as a temple, in the Greek Revival architectural style. [2] [3]

Greek Revival architecture architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.

Later, the house belonged to the Hicks family. [4] The house was renamed in honor of their daughter, Annice E. Hicks. [4] They converted a doorway into a window, added a kitchen in 1911, and later added a bathroom. [4]

The house was acquired by Mr and Mrs Henry Hunt III in 1968. [4] It still belonged to them in the 1980s. [4]

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 7, 1983. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Myers-Hicks Place". National Park Service. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Myers-Hicks Place ["Holly Hill Farm"]". Mississippi Department of Archives and History . Retrieved September 4, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Myers-Hicks Place" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Retrieved September 4, 2015.


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