It was designed in the Italianate architectural style, and built with red bricks by Captain J.

[2] Hardy lived here with his wife, née Ellen Hooker, their six children (Will, Charles, Brooks, Monita, Ethel, and Annie), and his wife's two sisters, Bettie Hooker Brooks (including her daughter Zula) and Martha Louise Hooker Ragsdale Atkins (including her three daughters Lulah, Nell and Florence.

[3] The house belonged to his great-great grandson, Thomas Hardy Little, from 1995 to 2005; he was found dead in Jackson, Mississippi in 2016.

[4] In 2017, the new homeowners began restoring it and found old poker chips that may have belonged to Captain Hardy.

This article about a property in Mississippi on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.