The Oaks House Museum, Greek Revival house in Belhaven Heights Historic District, Jackson, United States.
The Oaks House Museum is a Greek Revival house at 823 North Jefferson Street in Jackson, Mississippi, built around 1853 for Mayor James H. Boyd and his wife Eliza Ellis Boyd. The one-story residence, one of the city's oldest structures, is now a historic house museum administered by the Oaks House Museum Corporation.
The Oaks was built in the Greek Revival style around 1853 for Jackson mayor James H. Boyd and his wife Eliza Ellis Boyd. It survived the burning of Jackson during the Civil War and is one of the city's oldest structures. Three generations of the Boyd family lived there until 1960, when the grandchildren sold it to the Mississippi chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
The house stayed in the Boyd family for three generations, from 1853 until 1960, when the grandchildren sold it to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Mississippi. Eliza Ellis Boyd outlived her husband and lived here until her death in 1902; her daughter Mary and son-in-law Richard F. McGill raised two children in the house.
The Oaks stands at 823 North Jefferson Street, and the house is administered by the Oaks House Museum Corporation. The original 4-acre farmstead once reached north to Boyd Street and west to North Street, so the present grounds are smaller than the 19th-century property. Visitors move between the main house and the surviving outbuildings.
The 4-acre grounds once reached north to Boyd Street and west to North Street, forming an urban farmstead with a barn, detached kitchen, smokehouse and greenhouse. The property was sold in 1960 by the Boyd grandchildren to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi.
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