Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 78001583 Added to NRHP 22 December 1978 | Built 1816 (1816) Opened 1816 | |
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Location 408 N. Pearl St., Natchez, Mississippi Architectural style Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods) Similar Natchez National Historical, Grand Village of the Natch, Natchez Museum of African A, Dunleith, Natchez National Cemetery | ||
Myrtle Bank is a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
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History
The land was surveyed by Sir William Dunbar in the 18th century. It was granted to George Overarker, a planter, in 1795. Overarker, who also owned Hawthorne Place and Hope Farm, built Myrtle Bank prior to 1818.
By 1835, Alfred Cochran and his wife Eliza, who was William Dunbar's great-granddaughter, purchased the house. Two decades later, in 1856, it was purchased by Benjamin Wade, a planter. Wade leased it to The Natchez Young Ladies Institute, a girl's boarding school, until the outset of the American Civil War in 1861. The house remained in the Wade family until the 1870s.
The house was restored by a new owner in 1957.
Architectural significance
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 22, 1978.