Robert O. Wilder Building

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Coordinates: 32°24′15″N 90°09′39″W / 32.4041°N 90.1607°W / 32.4041; -90.1607
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Not to be confused with the Wilder Building in Rochester, New York.
John W. Boddie House
Tougaloo College Historic District (ID98001109)
NRHP reference No.82003106[1]
Added to NRHP1982-05-13

The Robert O. Wilder Building, previously known as the John W. Boddie House and then the Tougaloo Mansion House, is a historic plantation mansion on the campus of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.

History

The house was completed in 1860 for wealthy cotton planter and slave owner John Williams Boddie who died at the end of the American Civil War.[3] In 1869 the 500-acre former plantation, including the house, was bought for $10,500 (~$213,616 in 2023) by the Freedmen's Bureau and the American Missionary Association to become the campus of a school for Black students who were recently freed from slavery. [4]

Initially the building was used for a day school and then for housing female students in the upstairs bedrooms. Later it was used as a faculty dorm and for the college president's office. The building was renamed after college trustee

Tougaloo College Historic District in 1998.[4]

The building underwent structural renovations in 2003 and the exterior was refinished in 2012.[5] The interior was renovated in 2020.[6] The rebuilding project funds came from a combination of state and federal grants.[7]

Architecture

A large majority of the

gabled roof, bracketed cornices, and a belvedere. There is a grand entrance frontispiece with a six-panel front door.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Rehabilitation of The Mansion - John W Boddie House: Historical Research & Preliminary Planning". WFT Architects. Retrieved 2020-09-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "The Robert O. Wilder Building, commonly known as The Mansion, gets a makeover". Tougaloo College. Retrieved 2020-09-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ a b c NRIS
  5. ^ "The Robert O. Wilder Building, commonly known as The Mansion, gets a makeover". Tougaloo Magazine, Page 24. Fall 2016. Retrieved 2020-09-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Jacksonville, Mississippi. 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2020-09-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  7. ^ "Tougaloo Receives National Park Service Preservation Grant". Tougaloo Alumni Bulletin. Spring 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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