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Clifton Heights Historic District is located at an elevation more than 200 feet above the Mississippi River.The district is split up from the river by steep bluffs, the jagged edges of which the historic district's western boundary of the western side is formed, and by the low-lying lands underneath the bluffs from which the river bank is formed.
Location of Adams County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
It is located at number 821 on Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi. [3] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 16, 1974 for the architecture; [2] [3] and is a contributing property to the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District.
Ravenna is a historic two-and-a-half-story mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.. It was built in 1835-1836 for William Harris, a merchant commissioner, planter and Natchez alderman. [ 2 ] It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style , based on plans by Asher Benjamin . [ 2 ]
It includes the location of Natchez College, founded in 1885, and the Prince Street School, built in 1913. [ 2 ] Noted author Richard Wright grew up partly at the home of his grandparents Richard and Margaret Wilson, at 20 Woodlawn Avenue, in the district, and he later drew upon his childhood memories of there in his writing.
Glen Auburn (c. 1875), 300 S Commerce Street; built by Christian Schwartz, described as "probably the most outstanding of the post-Civil War houses" in the district and as "the best example of the Second Empire style in the state of Mississippi." [2] St. Mary's Cathedral (1882), 107 S. Union Street; also known as St. Mary Basilica
Dunleith is an antebellum mansion at 84 Homochitto Street in Natchez, Mississippi. [4] Built about 1855, it is Mississippi's only surviving example of a plantation house with a fully encircling colonnade of Greek Revival columns, a form once seen much more frequently than today.
The Upriver Residential District is a 145-acre (59 ha) historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes Colonial Revival, Late Victorian, Queen Anne, and other architecture, and has significance dating to 1790.