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Daily Tours
Available
Year-round


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information.
 
               2008

Tour 5 Times
 7 - 10pm : Tuesday, March 25  7 - 10pm : Tuesday, April 1
 7 - 10pm : Thursday, March 27  7 - 10pm : Thursday, April 3
 7 - 10pm : Saturday, March 29  7 - 10pm : Saturday, April 5

  Shadowlawn
home
1024 College Street

Fluted columns tower over the grand portico of this charming Greek Revival mansion with its Gothic and Italianate details. Shadowlawn houses many wonderful Victorian collections including novelty clocks, calling card receivers and aesthetic silver and silverplate. An excellent example of the Antebellum and early Victorian lifestyles. Beautifully restored in 2001. This historic home is now a Bed & Breakfast.

Circa 1848
NoNo and Burnette Avakian
National Register
www.shadowlawncolumbus.com

 

   Temple Heights
home
515 9th Street North

This classically designed house, combines Federal and Greek Revival features. The home includes four floors, porches on three sides, and fourteen Doric columns. The home, with a museum-quality collection of decorative arts, is the setting for historic narratives about nineteenth century life in Columbus.

Circa 1837
Mrs. Carl Butler
Mississippi Landmark
National Register
Historic American Building Survey

 
Columbus Historic Foundation
P.O. Box 46
300 Main Street
Columbus, MS 39703
Phone: 662.329.3533
Fax: 662.329.1027
Toll-free: 800.920.3533
Convention & Visitors Bureau
Toll-free: 800.327.2686

This project is funded in part by grants through the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Columbus-Lowndes Convention & Visitors Bureau & the Mississippi Arts Commission.