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Stanton Hall, also known as Belfast, is a Greek Revival mansion within the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District at 401 High Street in Natchez, Mississippi.Built in the 1850s, it is one of the most opulent antebellum mansions to survive in the southeastern United States.
Stanton Hall is a privately owned country house at Stanton in Peak in the Derbyshire Peak District, the home of the Davie-Thornhill family. It is a Grade II* listed building . The manor of Stanton was owned for some two centuries by the Bache family, but passed to Thornhill by the 1696 marriage of Mary Pegge, heiress of the estate, to John ...
Well-preserved mansion where author William Faulkner lived and wrote. 14: Fort St. Pierre Site: ... Stanton Hall: Stanton Hall. May 30, 1974 : Natchez Adams: 37 ...
For a short time, the women's school Stanton College in Natchez educated daughters of the white elite. It was located in Stanton Hall, built as a private mansion in 1858. During the early 20th century, the college was a site of negotiation, as daughters of the traditional planter class encountered those of the new commercial elite.
The Hall's architecture shows the increasingly connected national and global economy in which antebellum architecture emerged. The house used mantel pieces from New York, gas-burning chandeliers from Philadelphia, and mirrors from France. Similar to many antebellum homes, Stanton Hall was built using a fortune Stanton made trading cotton.
The main house of Ward Hall’s Greek Revival antebellum plantation mansion covers a staggering 12,000 square feet. By comparison, Henry Clay’s Ashland covers 8,184 square feet and the Waveland ...
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