The Gerard Brandon IV House is one of the first houses erected in the turn-of-the-century northern suburbs of Natchez and is one of the better examples of the Queen Anne style in the entire city. The house gains additional significance from its architectural integrity, its well-documented construction date (1890) which serves as a useful tool in studying the evolution of the Queen Anne style in Natchez, and from the local importance of Gerard Brandon IV (1861-1956) for whom the house was constructed. The fourth generation of his influential and prosperous family to reside in the Natchez area, he was an attorney who served on the Board of Trustees of Jefferson College from 1899 to 1951. (Brandon's grandfather, Gerard Brandon II, was the first native-born governor of the state of Mississippi.) The house was individually listed on the National Register on 19 March 1982, and it was later listed as element #360 in the Upriver Residential Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 December 1983. This house is included in "Victorian Houses of Mississippi" (2005) (p. 120). |