| Perhaps the grandest of the extant antebellum plantation houses of Adams County, where most mansions were built as townhouses or suburban villas for Natchez planters whose plantations were across the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The house gains further significance as the most outstanding frame mansion in the county and as the residence of the Brandon family, original members of the country cotton aristocracy. This house was listed on the National Register on 12 June 1980, with 40.18 acres of land. Information about the house is included in "The Majesty of Natchez" (1969/1981/1986) (p. 83), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 49), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (p. 74), and "Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860" (2006) (pp. 411-412). [HABS: MS-151 (1936)] |