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Thistledome

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It was purchased by E. B. Horn in 1900. He paid $ 10.00 down in December 1899 and remaining balance of $ 690 on January 1, 1900. Horn turned the house, which was facing East, to face North after his wife refused to live in the house because it faced a hog farm. He also redesigned it in the
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The house was built in 1840 by Joseph Chalmers, the District Attorney for Marshall County. He was the father of James Ronald Chalmers and H.H. Chalmers. He was also the Uncle to Jefferson Davis, who mentored with his uncle. It was designed as a two-storey,
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Shortly before World War II, in 1938, the house was purchased by the McAuley family. Mrs. McCauley was asked how she liked the house and her reply was "This will do me". What started as the "this will do me" house became Thistledome."
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of 1861-1865 still standing in Byhalia. As a contributing property to the Byhalia Historic District, it has been listed on the
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It was acquired by Jill and Todd Maxwell in 2012. The couple turned it into a restaurant.
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It is located at 118 Highway 309 South in Byhalia, a small town in Northern Mississippi.
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National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, Mississippi
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
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Historic district contributing properties in South Carolina
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U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
Thistledome is located in Mississippi
Thistledome is located in the United States
Byhalia
Marshall County
Mississippi
34°52′07.8″N 89°41′20.6″W / 34.868833°N 89.689056°W / 34.868833; -89.689056
Byhalia Historic District
ID96000256
Byhalia, Mississippi
National Register of Historic Places
Byhalia Historic District
Antebellum
hip-roofed
neoclassical architectural style
American Civil War
National Register of Historic Places





"Horn-McAuley House ["Thistledome"]"
Mississippi Department of Archives and History




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