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

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Architecturally, the district includes a set of Greek Revival works that are of national-level significance, and many other styles including Late Victorian architecture.{{cite web |author=Mary Warren Miller |date=May 31, 1979 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District |url={{NRHP url|id=79003381}} |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=79003381|title=accompanying photos|photos=y}} 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.{{rp|17}}

Important sites within the district include:{{rp|17}}

• 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.

It includes National Historic Landmark-designated sites:

• House on Ellicott's Hill
• Stanton Hall
• Rosalie
• Commercial Bank and Banker's House ({{Circa|1837}}), 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.{{rp|83}}

Other sites individually listed on the National Register include:

• King's Tavern (1769), 611 Jefferson Street
• The Elms ({{Circa|1805}}), 801 Washington Street
• Adams County Courthouse ({{Circa|1820}}), 201 S. Wall Street; considered one of the district's "pivotal" contributing buildings, a two-story Federal-style brick courthouse with a cupola. It was remodeled c. 1920 into Colonial Revival style with classical porticos.{{rp|77}}
• Presbyterian Manse ({{Circa|1830}}), 307 S. Rankin Street
• Winchester House (1835), 816 Main Street
• Choctaw ({{Circa|1835}}), NRHP-listed as Neibert-Fisk House
• The Barnes House ({{Circa|1836}})
• First Presbyterian Church (1830), 117 S. Pearl Street
• John Baynton House, ({{Circa|1833}}), 821 Main Street, NRHP-listed; also known as "Williamsburg"
• Green Leaves (1838), 303 S. Rankin Street; Greek Revival with doric columns
• William Johnson House (1841) Greek Revival
• Melrose (1848), 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway{{rp|84}}
• Magnolia Hall (1858), 215 S. Pearl Street; NRHP-listed as the Henderson-Britton House
• Longwood ({{Circa|1859}}), 140 Lower Woodville Road{{rp|84}}
• Glen Auburn ({{Circa|1875}}), 300 S Commerce Street; built by Christian Schwartz, 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."
• St. Mary's Cathedral (1882), 107 S. Union Street; also known as St. Mary Basilica
• Prentiss Club (1904), 211 N. Pearl Street; a yellow brick building in Second Renaissance Revival style, designed by New Orleans architects Soule and McDonald
• Temple B'nai Israel (1905), 213 South Commerce Street
• Stratton Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church (1909)

File:Presbyterian Manse.jpg|The Manse|alt=The Manse

File:Glen Auburn.jpg|Glen Auburn|alt=Glen Auburn

File:Adams County Courthouse, Natchez, MS IMG 6982.JPG|Adams County Courthouse|alt=Adams County Courthouse

File:The Barnes House.jpg|The Barnes House|alt=The Barnes House

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.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.

There are several other NRHP-listed historic districts in Natchez:

• Downriver Residential Historic District, adjacent on the south below Orleans St.
• Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District, adjacent to the river side
• Upriver Residential District, adjacent on the north, above Monroe St.
• Holy Family Catholic Church Historic District, adjacent, on the west
• Clifton Heights Historic District, on the river side of the Upriver Residential District
• Cemetery Bluff District
• Woodlawn Historic District

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Category:Historic districts in Natchez, Mississippi

Category:Greek Revival architecture in Mississippi

Category:Victorian architecture in Mississippi

Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Mississippi