Album: Govan-Herr House

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Resting on a lot in what was once coined “Fraiser Subdivision” by John Fraiser, sits the Govan-Kerr House, which was built in the mid-1850s by his son Charles Fraiser. The single-story home is considered to be a folk or vernacular cottage as it was built with available materials in the local area and is not associated with a distinct style of architecture. Post-1870, the home was named after military officer George M. Govan who also served as a politician in Mississippi, and later named for Holly Springs Governor, Albert Kerr, who purchased the home in the later 1880s. By the 1930s, the Daughters of the Confederacy opened and operated the Albert Herr Confederate Museum behind the main house until its destruction in the 1960s.