| Built for William T. Martin (1823-1910), who later become a Confederate general, and his wife Margaret Dunlop Coner Martin, on land that had originally been part of the "Linden" tract. This house originally had Italianate galleries, but they were removed when it was remodeled into its present Neoclassical style in 1927 by the New Orleans architectural firm of Weiss, Dreyfus, and Seiferth. "Monteigne" was listed on the National Register on 11 December 1974, with 23.15 acres of land. It is included in "A Guide to Early American Homes – South" (1956), "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "The Majesty of Natchez" (1969/1981/1986) (pp. 59-60), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (pp. 56-57), "The Great Houses of Natchez" (1986) (pp. 79-80, "Classic Natchez" (1996) (pp. 130-131), "Natchez Images, 1880-1960" (2002) (p. 46), and "Natchez: Houses and History …" (2003) (pp. 192, 204-211). |