| The main house at "Concord" was built in the 1790s for Spanish Governor Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (or possibly for his predecessor, Carlos de Grand Pre). It was remodeled, adding a classical portico and flanking colonnade, about 1812-19, probably to the design of Levi Weeks, for Stephen ("Don Estevan") Minor, who purchased the property in 1800. The main house was destroyed by fire in 1901. The curved entrance stairs and one outbuilding survive. It is included in "White Pillars" (1941) (pp. 108, 112-113), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp. 13-14), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (p. 34), 'The Architecture of Natchez before 1830,' in "Natchez before 1830" (1989) (pp. 140-141), "Lost Mansions of Mississippi" (1996) (pp. 3-5), and "Louisiana Architecture 1714-1820" (2004) (pp. 66-67). [HABS: MS-51 (three photos: one view of the stairs of the main house, made by Ralph Clynne on 29 March 1934, and two views of the surviving outbuilding, made by James Butters on 10 April 1936)] |