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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.
Rosalie Mansion is a historic pre-Civil War mansion and historic house museum in Natchez, Mississippi.Built in 1823, it was a major influence on Antebellum architecture in the greater region, inspiring many of Natchez's grand Greek Revival mansions.
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 Historic Landmark.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
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.
Aerial view of Downtown Natchez, 1932 A view of downtown Natchez. 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 ...
Benjamin Monsanto and his wife Clare of the famous Sephardic Jewish slave trading Monsanto family purchased Glenfield Plantation in 1787. [4] [5] During his time, Monsanto had 17 enslaved people at the property, who were force working the 500 acres (200 ha) of fields. [5] Glenfield was purchased in April 1880 by Osborne King Field, Sr.
Andrew Marschalk's printing office where the first book printed in Mississippi was printed in 1799, the first bank in Mississippi, the site of American flag-raising, in 1798, by Andrew Ellicott near the House on Ellicott's Hill, and; the traditional location of the earliest Sunday school south of Philadelphia, conducted at a Methodist church.