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

Historic district in Mississippi, United States

United States historic place


Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Swiss Chalet style "Edelweiss", at 209 S. Broadway
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Location	Natchez, Mississippi
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	79003381^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 17, 1979

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.^[1]

History

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

Important sites within the district include:^[2]^: 17

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.

List of National Historic Landmark designated sites

It includes National Historic Landmark-designated sites:^[2]

House on Ellicott's Hill
Stanton Hall
Rosalie
Commercial Bank and Banker's House (c. 1837), 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.^[2]^: 83

List of contributing properties and pivotal properties

Other sites individually listed on the National Register include:

King's Tavern (1769), 611 Jefferson Street
The Elms (c. 1805), 801 Washington Street
Adams County Courthouse (c. 1820), 201 S. Wall Street; considered one of the district's "pivotal" contributing buildings, a two-story Federal-style brick courthouse with a cupola. It was remodeled c. 1920 into Colonial Revival style with classical porticos.^[2]^: 77
Presbyterian Manse (c. 1830), 307 S. Rankin Street
Winchester House (1835), 816 Main Street
Choctaw (c. 1835), NRHP-listed as Neibert-Fisk House
The Barnes House (c. 1836)
First Presbyterian Church (1830), 117 S. Pearl Street
John Baynton House, (c. 1833), 821 Main Street, NRHP-listed; also known as "Williamsburg"
Green Leaves (1838), 303 S. Rankin Street; Greek Revival with doric columns
William Johnson House (1841) Greek Revival
Melrose (1848), 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway^: 84
Magnolia Hall (1858), 215 S. Pearl Street; NRHP-listed as the Henderson-Britton House
Longwood (c. 1859), 140 Lower Woodville Road^: 84
Glen Auburn (c. 1875), 300 S Commerce Street; built by Christian Schwartz, 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."^[2]
St. Mary's Cathedral (1882), 107 S. Union Street; also known as St. Mary Basilica
Prentiss Club (1904), 211 N. Pearl Street; a yellow brick building in Second Renaissance Revival style, designed by New Orleans architects Soule and McDonald
Temple B'nai Israel (1905), 213 South Commerce Street
Stratton Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church (1909)

Notable sites
The Manse
Glen Auburn
Adams County Courthouse
The Barnes 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]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Mary Warren Miller (May 31, 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District". 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.