Church House
Columbia, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Church House, also known as the Barrow House, is a Second Empire mansion built around 1873 in Columbia, Tennessee, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Located three blocks west of the court square in a formerly prestigious neighbourhood, the three-story brick structure stands as one of the finest examples of Second Empire architecture in the city. Its imposing design features a characteristic mansard roof topped with decorative slate shingles, a projecting central bay with a tower, and a heavily ornamented round arch framing the entrance porch. The façade's horizontal lines are emphasized by bay windows on the east and south elevations and a decorative porch with carved details, balanced against the vertical emphasis of the tower. Built on a cut and coursed stone foundation with walls laid primarily in common bond, the house displays the style's hallmark three-dimensional massing and profuse ornamentation, including massive detailing and distinctive attached and semi-detached dependencies. Though the rear kitchen has been modified, the façade retains its original appearance, and recent extensive renovations have preserved this grand late-nineteenth-century residence.
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- Type
- mansion
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Columbia, United States
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