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On
a visit to Calhoun City in 1999, we saw this charming house and fell in
love with it. We concluded that it was the perfect place for that
"second home" we had talked so much about. So we purchased it and began
adding some personal touches, trying to make it as comfortable as our
permanent home in Florida. Today it's a labor of love, as we continue
to maintain it and tweak it. The house has become a catalyst for us to
return to our roots much more frequently and visit the many wonderful
people who live there and that were so much a part of our early lives. Over the years, the home has been used as a gathering place where we've hosted the town centennial, the holiday parade of homes, class reunions and numerous family gatherings.
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Mallory House is located at 400 N. Jackson Street in Calhoun City, Mississippi. It is one of the original residences in this small community of 2,000 people in the Northeast part of the state. The home was built in 1905, a year before the town was officially incorporated.
Mallory House was named for Miss Frances Mallory, a dedicated and beloved high school English teacher, who rapped the knuckles of hundreds of students over 43 years and nudged them to take on such daunting tasks as memorizing the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original Old English. Alumni of Calhoun City High School have established a scholarship fund in her honor.
Miss Frances's family owned the property for 70 years. She lived there until she died in 1994, when the home was donated to the First Baptist Church. Fred Nabors, a local builder, acquired the property from the church and initiated a restoration in 1998 to bring the home back to its original condition, with a few added modern conveniences.
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