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

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]

Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
Swiss Chalet style "Edelweiss", at 209 S. Broadway
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is located in Mississippi
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is located in the United States
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
LocationNatchez, Mississippi
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.79003381[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1979

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]

List of contributing properties and pivotal properties

Other sites individually listed on the National Register include:


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

See also

There are several other NRHP-listed historic districts in Natchez:

References
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  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. 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
  3. 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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