John Curran House

Curran's house may be older than the town around it. The 1985 National Register form says it predates Madison's founding by several years and may have stood within the village of Lamarco. It is a one-and-a-half-story, five-bay Greek Revival cottage with a full-width porch on pillars, a central doorway with sidelights and a transom, six-over-six windows and a brick chimney at each gable; the form calls it an excellent example of the style applied to modest housing. T.P. and Maymie Hoy bought it in 1922 and made it their homestead.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 2.6 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 4.8 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 10 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 12 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• Montgomery House — steps away
• Farr Mercantile Company — steps away
• Old School Gymnasium — steps away
• Dorroh Street Historic District — 0.3 mi