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

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{{Infobox NRHP | name =Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes
| image = Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District-409.jpg
| caption = Swiss Chalet style "Edelweiss", at 209 S. Broadway
| location= Natchez, Mississippi
| locmapin = Mississippi#USA
| area =
| architect= Multiple
| architecture= Greek Revival, Late Victorian
| added = September 17, 1979
| governing_body = U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
| refnum=79003381^[1]
}}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]

Important sites within the district include:^[3]{{rp|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]{{rp|17}}

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

House on Ellicott's Hill
Stanton Hall
Rosalie

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, 1838, Greek Revival with Doric columns

Presbyterian Manse, circa 1830
William Johnson House (1841) Greek Revival
Choctaw (c.1835), NRHP-listed as Neibert-Fisk House
Longwood{{rp|84}}
Melrose{{rp|84}}

Glen Auburn, 300 S Commerce St, built by Christian Schwartz, circa 1875, 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]

One of the district's "pivotal" contributing buildings is the Adams County Courthouse at 201 S. Wall Street, which was built c. 1820 as a two-story Federal-style brick courthouse with a cupola. It was remodeled c. 1920 into Colonial Revival style with classical porticos.^[2]{{rp|77}}
Commercial Bank and Banker's House (c. 1837), a National Historic Landmark 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 . Andrew Brown, builder.^[2]{{rp|83}}

The Barnes House, circa 1836

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

{{commons category|Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District}}

1. ^¹{{NRISref|2007a}}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=79003381}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District |author=Mary Warren Miller |date=May 31, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=79003381|title=accompanying photos|photos=y}}
3. ^See the {{NRHP url|id=79003381|title=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.

5 : Historic districts in Natchez, Mississippi|Greek Revival architecture in Mississippi|Victorian architecture in Mississippi|Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi|National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Mississippi

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