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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