"Before Clark and I married, we'd gone there for dinner one evening," she said. Suzy Strain said she never dreamed she'd live in a home as large and lovely as the Goodlett home, but her husband, Clark, did.
I think grandmother and grandfather (Ollie and R.F.) would be pleased that the home is open for parties and entertaining, since they so loved to entertain themselves." "My only stipulation was that they not tear it down. "After Clark died, I didn't want to be in that big old house by myself," Suzy Strain said. Suzy and her children sold the home to the group of investors later that year. From there, the house passed to his only nephew, Clark Strain.Ĭlark and Suzy Strain lived in the home from 1993 until Clark's death in 2006. The design that finally emerged is the Tudor Revival architecture we see today, he said.įrank Goodlett, who lived there until his death in 1992. commissioned an addition to be built onto the north side of the house and had the exterior bricked. "At that time house moving was a much more common practice than it is today and after Leon Parchman with his team of mules and workers had pulled the house to the south, not even the plates on the mantel had moved."įrank Goodlett then went on to say that after the house was moved, R.F. "He sent the family to a resort near Sewanee, Tenn., while he moved the house and he hired a man who moved houses to turn the house and place it in the middle of the two lots that he owned," Frank Oliver Goodlett is quoted as saying. The Daily Journal article from 1992 says the original home was built in 1907 and was a simple, four-square house, but that R.F. tore down the house in which Miss Ollie was born in 1917, and built a Tutor Revival home. John Allen Blair and that his daughter, Julia Oliver Goodlett Blair, or Miss Ollie, was born there. Suzy Strain said the home was built by Col. Thompson said he, too, had heard a Victorian-style home was built there in the late 1880s. The house is not a fragile house, but at over 100 years old it takes a while to bring it back to its grandeur."ĭepending on who you talk to and what old newspaper articles you read, the house has various and contradictory dates of inception.Ī newspaper article from 1992 indicates some type of home was built in 1888. "I never dreamed it would take this long to get this far.
"We have a little more work to do and I have no idea how long that will take," Thompson said. Central heat and air were installed floors were refinished walls were painted leaks were repaired. Restoration and renovation work began on the house soon after it was purchased. Rental prices vary, depending on the month, the day of the week and the length of the event. "We can do huge events or intimate ones," Thompson said. It is an event site for weddings, receptions, parties and banquets.
Once known as the Goodlett House and as Aeolian Grove, the 7,000-square-foot mansion is now called Goodlett Manor. We decided to go with the flow, rather than fight the tide." "And then Roger Wicker asked us if he could use the house for his daughter's wedding reception and that started a chain of things happening. "Some people thought we were going to make offices out of it and I guess that was a possibility," Thompson said. They knew they weren't going to tear it down there had been enough old homes in Tupelo razed over the years, not counting the ones destroyed in the tornado of 1936. When the group bought the home, they had no idea what they were going to do with it. Thompson, an interior designer, and seven other investors bought the property in 2006 from some members of the family who had occupied the home for 100 years. (AP) - When Stephen Thompson was 21 years old, he walked by the old Goodlett home in downtown Tupelo one day and said aloud, "I sure would like to own that house one day."
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