A man moved a house seven miles by oxcart. Dr. Fielding Ficklen did this in the 1840s. He joined the moved front to another building. This created Holly Court. The back part dates to 1817. The front was relocated to meet it. It is a Neoclassical residence.
History caught up with the architecture. The American Civil War reached the house. It became the last refuge for Varina Davis. She stayed there before her husband, Jefferson Davis, was captured. He was a Confederate president. The house is made of joined parts and heavy memories.
Today, the building is a bed and breakfast. It is a white clapboard structure. It has a monumental entrance portico. This portico has two pairs of square Tuscan columns. It also has a pediment. It remains on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Leroy
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