The Elson-Dudley House is a historic home located at 1101 29th Avenue, Meridian, Mississippi

Meridian, Mississippi

Meridian is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It is the sixth largest city in the state and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area...

. Built in 1894 by Julius and Dora Neubauer Elson, some of Meridian's earliest settlers, the home is a Victorian Eastlake Movement

Eastlake Movement

The Eastlake Movement was a nineteenth century architectural and household design reform movement started by architect and writer Charles Eastlake . The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in terms of broad antique furniture designations...

 home with Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...

 influence. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 on December 18, 1979, under the Meridian Multiple Property Submission. It is also part of Merrehope Historic District, which was listed on the National Register on September 19, 1988.

The "pink house", as it is known locally, prominently features pedimented gables, a front veranda with a corner, conical-roofed turret, and a conical roofed tower. The front porch features turned balusters with center beads and the multi-panel entrance door is headed by a stained glass transom

Transom (architectural)

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The 5000 sq ft (465 m²), 16-room mansion sits on a 29620.8 sq ft (0.679999398850467 acre) lot and takes up half a city block

City block

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. The Elson-Dudley house contains 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The house holds 10 fireplace

Fireplace

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s, 5 chimney

Chimney

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s, a grand staircase, and sports an asymmetrical facade.