Property

Location Information
(for the Lisle-Shields Townhouse)

Name:

Lisle-Shields Townhouse ["Petit Bijou"]

Address:

701 Union Street, North

City/County:

Natchez, Adams County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1860

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

No. of Stories:

1.5

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

29 Mar 1979

NR District Name:

Upriver Residential (1983)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

356

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Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Natchez Historic District

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Context/Comments

This structure is architecturally significant as an example of a well-designed and well-executed late-Greek Revival city residence. It is historically significant to Natchez as athe residence of a locally prominent upper-middle-class family of the antebellum period and as one of the last major antebellum residences constructed within the corporate limits of the antebellum city.

This building was individually listed on the National Register on 29 March 1979, and it was later included as element #356 in the Upriver Residential Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 December 1983.

It is included in "The Great Houses of Natchez" (1986) (p. 103).