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  • Old House Journal

    ROSEDALE

    Aug 06, 2019 2 minutes
    BY BRIAN D. COLEMAN
    PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN NEITZEL

    ime moves slowly in Columbus, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the South. Gene Imes was born and raised here; he remembers riding horses in the pastures around Rosedale—an imposing country mansion that hadn’t changed since it was built in 1856. Designed in the picturesque Italian Villa style following an architectural plate from Samuel Sloan’s 1852 pattern book , it, or bell tower).

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