TEMPLE HEIGHTS
Historic House — 515 Ninth Street North, Columbus, Lowndes County County, Mississippi
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown · est. 1837
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/temple-heights-columbus-mississippi/

Historic house in Columbus; research record.

A historic house in Columbus, Mississippi, built in 1837, Temple Heights is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house in Columbus; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Elizabeth Kennebrew. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

Temple Heights was built in 1837 — Richard T. Brownrigg's Columbus mansion, given its Doric portico around 1854, the antebellum house being the kind of Greek Revival pile the Cotton Kingdom raised on its best streets.
The file's documented spine is the house's pedigree: an 1837 mansion dressed in 1854 columns, the building holding the era's ambition in its portico and its rooms holding the era's dead.

ELIZABETH KENNEBREW
The lore recounts Elizabeth Kennebrew apparitions and voices — the file's named ghost being a woman whose presence the house reportedly keeps: a figure in the rooms and a voice in the halls, the mansion's resident being the legend's center.
Kennebrew's apparition is the file's signature — a named ghost in a named house, the mansion keeping the woman whose identity the legend preserved when the record didn't.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Temple Heights is the archive's portico file — an 1837 mansion keeping Elizabeth Kennebrew reportedly in its rooms. The documented architecture is the record; the named ghost is the lore of a house that kept a woman the books lost.
A mansion with Doric columns keeps a named ghost — the file's suggestion being that Kennebrew's rooms still hold the presence the legend gave her.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts Elizabeth Kennebrew apparitions and voices. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Richard T. Brownrigg’s 1837 house received a Doric portico addition around 1854. A house in Columbus, Mississippi with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Brownrigg-Harris-Kennebrew House [Temple Heights]' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/
· Brownrigg-Harris-Kennebrew House [Temple Heights] — Mississippi Department of Archives and History
  https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=19684&view=facts&y=728

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