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Natchez On Top of the Hill Historic District

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Location
  
Natchez, Mississippi

Area
  
89 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
79003381

Added to NRHP
  
17 September 1979

Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Architectural styles
  
Greek Revival architecture, Victorian architecture

Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is a historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Important sites within the district include:

  • the location of 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.

    • Architecturally, the district includes a set of Greek Revival works that are of national-level significance, and many other styles including Late Victorian architecture. It has what is assessed to be the best Swiss Chalet Style work in Mississippi and it also has the best residential French Second Empire style work in Mississippi.

    It includes National Historic Landmark-designated sites:

  • House on Ellicott's Hill
  • Stanton Hall
  • Rosalie

    • and other sites individually listed on the National Register:

  • King's Tavern
  • Winchester House (1835)
  • Williamsburg, NRHP-listed as John Bayton House
  • Prentiss Club (1904), 211 N. Pearl St., a yellow brick building in Second Renaissance Revival style, designed by New Orleans architects Soule and McDonald
  • Stratton Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church
  • First Presbyterian Church
  • Magnolia Hall, NRHP-listed as Henderson-Britton House.
  • The Elms, c.1805
  • Green Leaves, 303 S. Rankin St, Greek Revival with Doric columns (photo 68)
  • Presbyterian Manse
  • William Johnson House (1841) Greek Revival
  • Choctaw (c.1835), NRHP-listed as Neibert-Fisk House
  • Longwood
  • Melrose
  • Auburn, also known as "Glen Auburn", described as "probably the most outstanding of the post-Civil War

    • houses" in the district and as "the best example of the Second Empire style in the state of Mississippi." (see photo #62)

    One of the district's "pivotal" contributing buildings is the Adams County Courthouse at 201 S. Wall Street, which was built c. 1820 as a two-story Federal-style brick courthouse with a cupola. It was remodeled c. 1920 into Colonial Revival style with classical porticos. (See photo #55 in accompanying photos.) Ca. 1820, emodeled ca, 1920. (see phoowner 2, photo 55)

  • Commercial Bank and Banker's House (c. 1837), a National Historic Landmark consisting of the Commercial Bank Building, a "one-story three-bay stuccoed brick with stone facade commercial building of two-story height with Ionic portico" and the connected Greek Revival style . Andrew Brown, builder. (photo #36)


    • A map delineating the area of the district, including a rectangle defined by Monroe, Pine, Orleans, and Broadway, but also a bit more, is provided in its 1979 NRHP nomination document.

    References

    Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District Wikipedia
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