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Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi)

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MPS
  
Port Gibson MRA

Opened
  
1826

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Added to NRHP
  
22 July 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79003418

Area
  
4 ha

Built by
  
Joshua G. Clarke

Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi)

Location
  
366 Claremont Dr., Port Gibson, Mississippi

Similar
  
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Claremont in Port Gibson, Mississippi is a historic Federal-style one-and-a-half story house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

It is a center hall plan house with a gallery to the rear. It is surrounded by live oak trees with Spanish moss.

It was built in 1826 by Judge Joshua G. Clarke (d. 1828), who was the first judge appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court judge.

It has been described as a "fine example of the late Federal style applied to a moderately sized country house".

Clarke's descendant J. Cavitt Clarke III wrote: "As a sign of his success, about 1826, Judge Clarke built Claremont, among the first of the larger homes near Port Gibson." (citing Ed Polk Douglas, ed., Architecture in Claiborne County, Mississippi: A Selective Guide (Jackson: Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, 1974), page 72. )

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Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi) Wikipedia