Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
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Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District | |
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Swiss Chalet style "Edelweiss", at 209 S. Broadway | |
| Location | Natchez, Mississippi |
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| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Late Victorian |
| NRHP Reference # | 79003381[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 17, 1979 |
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is an historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
Important sites within the district include:[2]:17
- 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.[2] 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.[2]:17
It includes National Historic Landmark-designated sites:[2]
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
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.[3]
See also
There are several other NRHP-listed historic districts in Natchez:
- Downriver Residential Historic District, adjacent on the south below Orleans St.
- Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District, adjacent to the river side
- Upriver Residential District, adjacent on the north, above Monroe St.
- Holy Family Catholic Church Historic District, adjacent, on the west
- Clifton Heights Historic District, on the river side of the Upriver Residential District
- Cemetery Bluff District
- Woodlawn Historic District
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District. |
- 1 2 Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 3 4 Mary Warren Miller (May 31, 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying photos
- ↑ See the NRHP nomination document on page 93 of the PDF file. Note the outline is indicated by hand-drawing on top of a 1976 map, with term "Natchez Old Town Historic District" (perhaps a proposed or actual locally-designated historic district name); the outline drawn, however, is for this Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill district.
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