Constructed circa-1857, the Manship House Museum was originally owned by the city?s Civil War mayor, Charles Manship, who came to Jackson in the 1830?s as an ornamental painter.

Today, the Manship House Museum is one of the few remaining antebellum mansions in the state as well as being one of the last Mississippi residences that boasts of Gothic Revival architecture. The design had been inspired from one of the layouts included in the 19th century pattern book Architecture of Country Houses by AJ Downing.

The four-acre property boasts of expansive floor-to-ceiling windows, a bathing room, and wood graining and decorative painting made by Charles Henry Manship himself. The house also showcases exquisite restorations of the home?s original wallpaper patterns. Periodic furnishing may also be found at the Manship House Museum, and which are typical of a Southern middle-class home in the 1880?s.