Thistledome

Thistledome, a.k.a. Horn-McAuley House and Chalmers/Horn House is a historic house in Byhalia, Mississippi, USA. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Byhalia Historic District, it is the only remaining Antebellum residence in Byhalia.LocationIt is located at 118 Highway 309 South in Byhalia, a small town in Northern Mississippi.HistoryThe house was built in 1840 for A. L. Chalmers, a South Carolinian. It was designed as a two-storey, hip-roofed house.It was purchased by E. B. Horn in 1906. Horn moved the house, which was facing East, to face North. He also redesigned it in the neoclassical architectural style.Shortly before World War II, in 1938, the house was purchased by the McAuley family. They renamed it "Thistledome", a pun for "This will do me."It was acquired by Jill and Todd Maxwell in 2012. The couple turned it into a restaurant.Architectural significanceThe house is the only house built prior to the American Civil War of 1861-1865 still standing in Byhalia. As a contributing property to the Byhalia Historic District, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 7, 1996.