Fall Pilgrimage 2013

• Designed by Levi Weeks for first Mississippi territory attorney general
• Famous for enormous portico, columns, cornices and free standing spiral staircase
• National Historic Landmark

• Andrew Ellicott, in defiance  of Spain, raised the American flag on this hill in 1797
• Overlooking the terminus of the Natchez Trace 
• Restoration project of Natchez Garden Club 

• Built by William Harris and his wife, Caroline Harrison Harris, niece of President William Henry Harrison
• Noted for its three-story elliptical stairway, elegant woodwork and lovely old-fashion garden

• Richly detailed Greek Revival house and has original furnishings and memorabilia
• Shaded by gigantic legendary live oaks
• Owned by the same family since 1849

• Private billiard hall styled as a Greek temple
• Rare pocket doors ornamented etched stained glass
• Collection of rare antique maps
• Heirloom garments, lap desk, portraits
   

• Built by Gerard Brandon, son of first native born governor of Mississippi
• Stately Greek Revival, formerly a working plantation
• Site of the Natchez Trace Parkway inauguration ceremony

• Built as a summer retreat for Spanish
• Territorial Governor Stephen Minor
• Served as a Federal hospital during the Civil War
• Occupied by the same family since 1881

• Grand Italianate facade was built in 1858 containing two-story recessed gallery and third-story tower rooms, later lost to fire
• Contains an exceptional collection of period lace, furnishings, beaded purses and
• Moser glass

• South's finest examples of early plantation style architecture
• Marriage site of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell
• Overlooks the Mississippi River

The Coyle House ca. 1793
307 S. Wall St.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Adams
 

• One of the earliest buildings in Natchez
• Significant example of the Federal style
• In residential area of the city known as “the Spanish Quarter”
• Brick first story is a later addition built beneath the house, Wall Street cut through a small hill
   

• Pilgrimage Costume Museum
• One of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture
• Last great mansion built in Natchez prior to the Civil War

• Federal and Greek Revival architecture
• Empire furnishings, Old Paris porcelains, Zuber wallpaper and historical textiles

• Greek Revival with Italienate cast iron embellishments manufactured by Lathrop Iron Works which supplied iron to the Confederacy