Mockingbird House

Mockingbird House was built circa 1887 for William Draper Feagin and his wife, Loretta Rabb Feagin. William and his brother, Benjamin Feagin, were both prominent members of Pine Apple’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century business community, each operating a mercantile business in town until about 1919.

Architecturally, Mockingbird House is a one-and-a-half-story frame T-cottage with a double-pile main block. The house features returned cornices and decorative shingles in the gables, characteristic Victorian details. An attached hipped-roof front porch is supported by turned wooden posts embellished with decorative jigsaw-work brackets, giving the house much of its distinctive charm.

Mockingbird House was included in the Pine Apple Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. With its well-preserved architectural details and its connection to the Feagin family and Pine Apple’s early mercantile history, the home remains an important part of the community’s historic streetscape.