The magnificent mansions listed below are available for touring year round.
Adults $10 per person
Children $ 8 per person (6-13)
Visit any of the three mansions below (except for The Briars, Dunleith and The Towers)
3-House Ticket:
Adults $24 per person
Children $18 per person (6-13)
Note: The price for Melrose is fixed at $8 per person.
Verify tour times by calling 800-647-6742 as tour schedules change during Spring and Fall Pilgrimages.
No site epitomizes more the rapid rise in wealth that one could attain in the pre-Civil War era, nor the rapid rate of decline in wealth in the post-bellum era. This six-story 30,000 square foot mansion was designed by Samuel Sloan of Philadelphia for wealthy planter Haller Nutt and his wife, Julia Williams Nutt. As it was nearing completion, the Civil War began and the workmen dropped their tools and went home. Haller died in 1864 and his wife Julia continued to live in the finished first floor that today contains many original family furnishings. The upper five stories are an architectural wonder - a magnificent work in progress where time just stopped and stayed. This grandest octagonal house in America is a National Historic Landmark. Tours every 30 minutes 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Stanton Hall is one of the most magnificent and palatial residences of antebellum America. This home was completed at the height of antebellum prosperity for wealthy planter and cotton broker Frederick Stanton. Although of Greek Revival style, this palatial home features ornamentation and elaborate surface details that were lacking in the earlier pure Greek Revival styles. A preservation project of the Pilgrimage Garden Club, it is furnished with Natchez antiques and many original furnishings of the Stanton Family. National Historic Landmark. Tours every 30 minutes 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The last great mansion built in downtown Natchez prior to the War Between the States, it is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture. The exterior walls are stucco over brick, scored and painted to resemble brownstone. Featured inside is a costume museum. Built for cotton broker and merchant Thomas Henderson, it was also the home of Audley Clark Britton and family until 1935. Mr. Britton was one of the founders of the Britton and Koontz Bank in Natchez, which was chartered in 1835 and still exists today. This wonderful home is a restoration project of the Natchez Garden Club. National Register. Tours every hour 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. seven days a week.
Andrew Ellicott, under the direction of President George Washington, and in defiance of Spanish authorities, raised the American flag on this hill in 1797. Architecturally, the style reflects influences of the West Indian Caribbean, where Natchez had common trade interests with the French, English and Spanish. Overlooking the terminus of the Natchez Trace, it is a mid-1930's historic restoration project of the Natchez Garden Club. National Historic Landmark. Tours every hour Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Located on the Mississippi Bluff near the site of the Natchez Indians' massacre of the French at Fort Rosalie. Architecturally significant in that its design became the prototype for later mansions in Natchez and across the South. The design is cubical in nature with two-story columns supporting both a front portico and a rear full-width gallery. The twenty-one pieces of Rococo Revival furniture from the workshop of John H. Belter are so familiar to scholars that similar pieces are referred to as having the "Rosalie" pattern. It was the headquarters of the Union Army during the War Between the States. Owned by the Mississippi State Society DAR. National Historic Landmark. Tours every hour 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This imposing mansion set in the midst of Duncan Park is famous for its architecture and its beautiful free-standing spiral stairway unsupported to the second floor. Auburn was built by lawyer and banker Lyman Harding who was Mississippi Territory's first attorney general, and Levi G. Weeks who was a designer-builder. With it's portico front and pediment roof supported by colossal columns, Auburn became a house that influenced the design of countless other antebellum mansions across the South. Auburn was later occupied by Dr. Stephen Duncan, one of the founders of Trinity Episcopal Church. The home is now owned by the City of Natchez and operated by the Auburn Garden Club. National Historic Landmark. Tours upon arrival Tues. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Last tour begins at 2:30 p.m.
This beautiful mansion was the home of General John A. Quitman, an early Mississippi governor of Mexican War fame. After living in the home for nearly thirty years, Quitman hired builder James McClure to update the house. The appeal of Monmouth lies in McClure's carefully calculated balance, symmetry, and proportions, as well as the subliminal impact of the bold lines of the Grecian mode. The mansion contains many original Quitman pieces. This historic antebellum home with its surrounding formal gardens is now an award winning small luxury hotel. National Historic Landmark. Tours every 45 minutes 9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
The magnificent Greek Revival exterior which emanates strength and permanence is equally matched by a fifteen-thousand-square-foot interior containing many of the original furnishings. The entrance porch is an undisguised Greek temple. In architectural terms it is a four columned portico incorporating Doric columns that are topped by a horizontal band of moldings and triangular pediment. The details are correct, but the surfaces are not ornate. The details throughout the interior are boldly ordered and architectural, with Grecian pilasters, columns, and marble mantels. Now under the auspices of the Natchez National Historical Park, the site also contains slave dependencies, a landscaped park and formal gardens that clearly make MELROSE one of the most historical sites in America. Tours every hour 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
A beautiful southern planter's mansion, site of the 1845 wedding of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, the Briars is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main house sits on a flat area of a bluff surrounded by rolling wooded terrain with fantastic views of the river and the two bridges connecting Mississippi with Louisiana. The view from the observation point extends many miles up and down the river. There are 19 acres of garden that have been personally designed, created and developed by the owners since 1975. There is rarely a time when flowers are not in bloom among the ancient pecan trees, magnolias, and live oaks. The elegant, antique-filled home and dependency contain 15 spacious bedrooms. The Briars is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday through Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. to noon on Thursday. Tickets are sold on an individual basis, but are not sold as part of the discounted three-house tour.
A National Historic Landmark, Dunleith is the only house in Mississippi that is completely encircled by a colossal colonnade. Dunleith stands on the site originally occupied by "Routhland," a house built by Job Routh and his wife. Tragically, Routhland was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Dunleith was constructed on the site in 1856 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dahlgren as their in-town villa. Located atop a rise on the edge of a forty-acre landscaped park within the city limits of Natchez, Dunleith boasts an array of outbuildings associated with antebellum life on a suburban estate. Among these outbuildings are a three-story brick dependency with an antebellum bathroom, a two-story poultry house, a two-story carriage house and stable, and an original hot-house for the garden. Hours may vary due to private functions and may be closed for special events. Tour hours are from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. daily.
Tickets are sold on an individual basis, but are not sold as part of the discounted three-house tour.
The Towers (ca. 1798-1826-1858)
The rich Italianate facade of the Towers was built on the eve of the Civil War as a new front to an earlier frame cottage. The new front included a two-story recessed porch, or loggia, with three arches on each floor, set between matching three-story towers that were the source for the name of the house. The third stories were lost to fire in the 1920's. J. Edwards Smith, a local attorney, was the architect
for the Towers. The house was built for W. C. Chamberlain, probably shortly after the land was acquired in1859. During the Union occupation of Natchez, the Towers was located within Fort McPherson, a large earthwork fortification constructed in the northern suburbs of town. Union Officers occupied the house while soldiers pitched tents on the eight acres of landscaped grounds. Tour hours are 1:30 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Other times may be available by appointment only. Tickets are sold on an individual basis, but are not sold as part of the discounted three-house tour.
Longwood is open every day during Pilgrimage, from 9 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(Last tour is at 4:30 p.m.)
Adult tickets are $12 each if purchased individually or $10 each when added to a 3-House tour ticket.
Call 800-647-6742 for children's prices.
Located in the Visitor's Center
640 S. Canal St.
P.O. Box 347
Natchez, MS 39121
Phone 601-446-6631
Toll-Free 800-647-6742
