Hope Farm (Natchez, Mississippi)

Hope Farm
Location 147 Homochitto Street, Natchez, Mississippi
Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1792 (1792)
Architectural style Greek Revival, Colonial, Spanish Colonial
NRHP reference # 75001037[1]
Added to NRHP August 22, 1975

Hope Farm is a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.

History

The house was built by Carlos de Grand Pré from 1780 to 1792.[2] Simple Spanish provincial architecture. Mary Routh Ellis sold the farm to Eli Montgomery in 1833, and for 90 years it remained in Montgomery family.

Spain and England met here. Hope Farm, charming in its simplicity, had a section built in 1775, when the English owned the Natchez area. Then, in 1790, the Spanish Governor Carlos de Grand Pré added the gallery with its ornamented, sturdy columns. The building shows a merger of two different elements of building, and of two varying cultures.[3]

In 1926, it was purchased by J. Balfour Miller and his wife, Katherine Grafton Miller,[2] who founded the Natchez Pilgrimage and promoted Natchez as the epitome of the Old South.[4][5]

Heritage significance

The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1975.[6]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Hope Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ https://www.loc.gov/item/csas201207187/
  4. ↑ Hoelscher, Steven (September 2003). "Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 93 (3): 665. doi:10.1111/1467-8306.9303008. JSTOR 1515502. (Registration required (help)).
  5. ↑ Browning, Norma Lee (March 4, 1951). "Quaint Old Natchez. Pre-Civil War Glories Live Again Thru Woman's Dreams". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 6. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Hope Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved June 21, 2016.


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