MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Built in 1816. It is a pure Southern Colonial type of brick construction with Tuscan columns and majestic fanlights over the carved doorways. Gothic bookcases in the library shelve some 8000 volumes including a collection purchased by Judge Boyd in England about 1840. Among the valuable collections of glass in America.
See also . . .
Blink Twice and Arlington Might Vanish
Categories: Antebellum, Natchez
Thank you for sharing these with us this week. I’ve always enjoyed old postcards and these were excellent!
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Just wanted to say, wish I had the money to redo, the arlington, would be absolutely beautiful, I wish the town of natchez would find away to get the property,so it could be fixed. Thank you
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I’d love to get some of the post cards of the arlington, ,are the books that were saved from the house when it burned, are they on display, and some of the furniture,thankyou.
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