William Nichols (architect)
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William Nichols, Sr. was an English-born architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his early Neoclassical-style buildings in the American South. He designed statehouses f
Old Mississippi State Capitol building in 2010
Hayes Plantation House, completed in 1817 in Edenton, North Carolina.
The Old Alabama State Capitol building in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Completed during the late-1820s and destroyed in 1923. Stabilized ruins of the central rotunda and architectural fragments remain in situ.
The Mississippi Governors Mansion, completed in 1839. Still used for its intended purpose.
The Mississippi Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Mississippi, who is currently Tate Reeves. It is located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, south of the Mississippi Stat
William Nichols (architect)
…and ornament on the new building reflected his earlier statehouses in North Carolina and Alabama, on a grander scale. Nichols went on to design the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, completed in 1842, and the Lyceum at the University of Mississippi, completed in 1848. He died on December 12, 1853, and was interred in the Odd Fellows…
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