Great Houses of Mississippi
Editorial Reviews Book Description The sweeping staircase of Rosemont. The imposing ironwork of Ammadelle. The forlorn, ambitious geometry of Longwood. Mississippi homes boast some of America's great architectural marvels.
Great Houses of Mississippi highlights the state's exceptional antebellum houses in color photos and lively and informative text. Federal town houses, Greek Revival plantation homes, and Italianate and Gothic villas recall the decades when Mississippi led the nation in architectural excellence. The stories behind these houses mirror Mississippi's history. The tales of the families and slaves who built them, the people who preserved them through multiple generations and often saved them from destruction, convey the story of the state from its earliest territorial years to the present day.
Mary Rose Carter's ninety-five photographs detail these homes in vivid full color. The labor of frontier carpenters is evident in the simple lines of Cold Spring, Rosemont, and the Feltus-Catchings House. Territorial prosperity and the arrival of skilled architects are demonstrated in the symmetry and elaborate Federal detailing of Auburn, Rosalie, and the Lewis House. As the Cotton Kingdom flourished, Greek Revival found its most exuberant expression in Mississippi in the early examples of Melrose, Cedar Grove, and the Martha Vick house and then spread elsewhere. Rare Gothic styles are here as well in Ammadelle, Rosedale, Cedarhurst, and Mount Holly. The zenith of the antebellum era, when Mississippians vied to build ever grander plantation homes and town houses, is captured in stunning photographs of Dunleith, Stanton Hall, Waverly, and Walter Place.
Within these pages are monuments to the talents and imaginations of Mississippi's antebellum generations. Their enduring beauty and fascinating stories will be of interest to anyone searching for remnants of the pre-Civil War splendor of the South. From the Publisher Text and photos capture the antebellum grandeur of thirty-five homes. Showcased are the homes of Cold Spring, Auburn, Rosemont, Rosalie, the Feltus-Catchings House, the Lewis House, the Martha Vick House, Magnolia Hill, Cedar Grove, the Wilson-Gilruth House, Rowan Oak, Melrose, Beauvoir, The Magnolias, Riverview, the Tullis-Toledano Manor, Athenia, Strawberry Plains, Belmont, the Mosby Home, Dunleith, the Neilson-Culley-Lewis House, Stanton Hall, Rosedale, Wohlden, the Boddie Mansion, Ammadelle, Mount Holly, the Manship House, Cedarhurst, Airliewood, Waverley, White Arches, Walter Place, and Longwood. They are in such towns as Natchez, Woodville, Columbus, Holly Springs, and Canton, in such styles as the Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, and Eclectic. Great Houses of Mississippi
Great Houses of Mississippi,Mary Carol Miller,Mary Rose Carter,University Press of Mississippi,1578066743,Architecture,Domestic,Dwellings,General,Historic buildings,History,History - General,History - General History,History, Local,History: World,Mississippi,Pictorial works,U.S. Architecture - South,United States - State & Local - General
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