I. T. Montgomery House

Infobox_nrhp | name =I. T. Montgomery House
nrhp_type =nhl


caption = I. T. Montgomery House
location= West Main Street, Mound Bayou, Mississippi
lat_degrees = 33
lat_minutes = 52
lat_seconds = 37.25
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 90
long_minutes = 43
long_seconds = 43.6
long_direction = W
locmapin = Mississippi
area =
built =1910
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= May 11, 1976cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1628&ResourceType=Building
title=I. T. Montgomery House |accessdate=2007-10-22|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = May 11, 1976cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=76001092

I. T. Montgomery House is was the home of Isaiah Thornton Montgomery, (21 May 1847 - 5 March 1924), a former slave, who with his cousin Benjamin Green founded the successful Mound Bayou, Mississippi community, one of the first such, in 1887. He lived in this home from 1910 to 1924.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/76001092.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: I. T. Montgomery House] |261 KB|date=October 30, 1975 |author=Lynne Gomez Graves |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/76001092.pdf Accompanying 2 photos, exterior, from 1974 and undated.] |981 KB]

References

External links

* [http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2346/Mount_Bayou_Miss_the_FUBU_of_cities Mound Bayou, Mississippi, at Black American Registry]