Columbus in Lowndes County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)
Kenneth Gatchell House
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 12, 2024
1. Kenneth Gatchell House Marker
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Education • Women. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1851.
Location. 33° 29.745′ N, 88° 24.991′ W. Marker is in Columbus, Mississippi, in Lowndes County. It is on College Street east of South 14th Street, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1411 College St, Columbus MS 39701, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in East Mississippi, in the Black Prairie, and in the Golden Triangle. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Black Belt. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: MUW Desegregation (approx. 0.2 miles away); Mississippi State College for Women (approx. Ό mile away); Demonstration School (approx. 0.3 miles away); Baldwin Locomotive No. 601 (approx. 0.4 miles away); Missionary Union Baptist Church (approx. 0.4 miles away); Snowdoun (approx. 0.4 miles away); Church of the Annunciation (approx. 0.4 miles away); Sims-Brown House (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Columbus.
Regarding Kenneth Gatchell House. Excerpts from the National Register nomination:
In a townnoted for its fanciful, frame antebellum residences, the Gatchell House is architecturally significant for its use of brick in a three-story, singlepile form that utilizes the above-grade basement as a principal level. In addition, the sophisticated example of Gothic Revival plasterwork featured in the main parlor is apparently unique for a residence in Mississippi. The house is also significant as the residence, during the early twentieth century, of two outstanding educators associated with the neighboring Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women).
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An 1849 map of Columbus shows the house lot, square 37 south of Main Street, as the site of James M. Stevens's "brikyard." The house was built between Stevens's 1851 sale of the lot and 1859, when the property was purchased by Mrs. Early Hendricks for $3,000, but an incomplete chain of title makes it impossible to pinpoint the person for whom the construction was carried out.
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the property had numerous owners, including some of local prominence. From 1917 until 1923, it was the home of Nellie Sutton Keirn (1885-1975), a professor at, and later president and vice-president of, Mississippi State College for Women, and Anne L. Fant, professor of education and psychology at the college from 1896 until her death in 1930.
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Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 12, 2024
2. Kenneth Gatchell House Marker
Marker is on the ground level.
Also see . . . Kenneth Gatchell House (PDF). National Register nomination for the property, which was listed in 1978. (Prepared by Mary McCahon Shoemaker; via Mississippi Department of Archives and History) (Submitted on April 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
Credits. This page was last revised on April 9, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 998 times since then and 64 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
