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Jefferson. Brierfield Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°09′12″N 91°07′15″W / 32.15320°N 91.12094°W / 32.15320; -91.12094 (Brierfield) Warren. Built 1847 by Jefferson Davis adjacent to his older brother's Hurricane Plantation; destroyed by fire in 1931. [citation needed] 83000949. Cherry Grove Plantation.
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. Now an inn and conference center, it was designated a National ...
December 16, 1969 [3] Designated USMS. November 29, 1994 [1] Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. Built in part by enslaved people, [4][5] the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National ...
Designated USMS. January 5, 1984 [1] Auburn is an Federal mansion in Duncan Park in Natchez, Mississippi. It was designed and constructed by Levi Weeks in 1812, and introduced academic Classical order architecture in the Mississippi territory. Its prominent two-story portico served as a model for the subsequent architectural development of ...
Windsor Ruins are in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. The ruins consist of 23 standing Corinthian columns of the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion ever built in the state. [4] The mansion stood from 1861 to 1890, when it was destroyed by fire.
Glenfield Plantation. Glenfield Plantation (originally called Glencannon) is a one-level historic antebellum home in Natchez, Mississippi. Glenfield was built in two distinct architectural periods on a British land grant originally deeded to Henry LeFluer by King George III. The original 500 acres (200 ha) acres grew to a 2,000 acres (810 ha ...
It is a south-facing house two stories tall at the front and three stores at the rear. It has two-story service wings on both sides. It has a hipped roof with an overhang supported by paired brackets. [ 3 ] It has a dark pink facade. [ 4 ] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.
Springfield, circa 1936–1941. One of the oldest mansions in Mississippi, the Springfield Mansion was built between 1786 and 1791. The original plantation had over [2] 3,000 acres (12 km 2) and was purchased by Thomas M. Green Jr., a wealthy Virginia planter, in 1784. Green had the house built to show off his wealth.