Built 1845 Added to NRHP 20 April 1983 | Opened 1845 | |
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Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Mississippi Museum of Natural S, Jackson Zoo, Geyser Falls Water Theme P, Vicksburg National Military P, Hattiesburg Zoo | ||
Dunvegan, a.k.a. Norfleet-Cochran House or Rand-Norfleet House, is a historic cottage in Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA. It was built in 1845 for Jesse P. Norfleet, a cabinetmaker from Virginia who married into the Southern aristocracy who owned plantations in Mississippi. In the 1970s, it was renamed Dunvegan for the town of Dunvegan on the Scottish island of Skye.
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Location
Dunvegan is located at 159 Gholson Avenue West in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
History
The land was acquired by Jesse P. Norfleet on January 3, 1845. The cottage, designed in the Greek Revival architectural style, was built later that year. The rafters were made of pine tree wood while the bricks were handcrafted. Like a traditional English cottage, the bedrooms and the living-rooms are upstairs, while the kitchen and dining-room are in the basement.
Norfleet was a cabinetmaker from Suffolk, Virginia who married Jane H. Carlock, the daughter of Moses Carlock, a large Southern planter. His daughter Ada married Henry Oscar Rand; Norfleet's grandson, Frank C. Rand, was the Chairman of the International Shoe Company. As a result, the house is sometimes known as the Rand-Norfleet House. Meanwhile, Norfleet sold the house to James Jarrell House on September 8, 1861. Several decades later, in 1903, it was redesigned by German-born architect Theodore Link, when he added a single-bay portico.
The cottage was purchased by Vadah Cochran and his wife Doris in the 1970s. Cochran, who was a Professor of English at Memphis State University in Tennessee for twenty-six years as well as a painter whose work was exhibited at the Municipal Art Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi, painted murals inside the house and designed the gardens. The couple renamed the cottage Dunvegan after the town on the Scottish island of Skye, where their ancestors originated, and opened it to the public for a tour once a year.
Architectural significance
As a contributing property to the Southwest Holly Springs Historic District, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 20, 1983.