By Mary Carol Miller
As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians approximately her books on misplaced mansions and landmarks, fanatics introduced her extra tales of significant structure ravaged by means of time. The twenty-seven homes incorporated in her new e-book are one of the so much memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The checklist levels from the oldest residence within the Natchez area, misplaced in a 1966 hearth, to a Reconstruction-era domestic that came across new lifestyles as a faculty for freed slaves. From Gulf Coast landmarks either misplaced to typhoon Katrina, to the mysteriously lost facades of Hernando's White apartment and Columbus's Flynnwood, those houses mark excessive issues within the huge sweep of Mississippi historical past and the state's architectural legacy.
Miller tells the tales of those houses via debts from the households who equipped and maintained them. those buildings run the stylistic gamut from Greek revival to moment Empire, and their proprietors contain each person from Revolutionary-era squaddies to governors and scoundrels.
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James Brabston went to Sherman’s headquarters to get permission to go visit her husband and bring him home. When she reached the camp accompanied by a Dr. Joyceline whose wife had been sick at Mrs. Brabston’s they found that the General had gone to town, was expected any time. She thought in the meantime she would pay a visit to Mrs. Sherman’s tent. She found her with one of her children very ill with temp. Mrs. Sherman received her very coolly—did not know when the General would return. He soon after arrived .
His notes mention chandeliers, marble mantels, and a back gallery with shutters to block out the afternoon sun. He also describes the lone telephone, whose bell was housed on the stair landing but whose handset was only located by someone following its fifty-foot cord. The kitchen included an ingenious wall box with arrows indicating to which room a servant was being summoned. Compton noted, as well, that the house was difficult to heat, even with a “hot air coal furnace” in the cellar. Upstairs were another large hall and four or five bedrooms.
In 1811, the Hookes began work on Salisbury, named for the captain’s hometown in Massachusetts. It would never be mistaken for one of the later elaborate Greek Revival mansions of Natchez; rather, it was a very functional one-and-a-half-story “Carolina style” planter’s house with rounded columns that stretched from roof to ground level. The roof extended out over the front gallery and was pierced by one central dormer. Two interior The term “lost mansion” has many connotations. Most of the homes described in this book have vanished, with only minimal evidence, photographic or structural, that they ever existed at all.