Montgomery House

Thomas Jones's grand front was styled from a pattern book. The Gothic Revival facade, inspired by Andrew Jackson Downing's designs, has twin front gables with vergeboard, a pinnacle and a pendant, an eight-foot gallery on square Tuscan columns with a quatrefoil balustrade, and a fish-scale bay on the south parlor. Behind it is a pioneer dogtrot. An 1898 Madison Land Company publication pictured the house as Jones's residence. Inside are twelve-foot ceilings, a twelve-foot-wide hall with beaded pine wainscoting, and hand-grained paneled doors.

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

• John Curran House — steps away
• Farr Mercantile Company — steps away
• Old School Gymnasium — 0.2 mi
• Madison — 0.3 mi