| A wood-frame Federal Style I-house with a five-bay façade. It has double galleries with paneled square pillars on both stories, and a Federal frontispiece with an elliptical fanlight. The second-oldest extant dwelling constructed by the prominent Bisland family of the Pine Ridge area, Mount Repose has remained in the family and has never been restored. This house was listed on the National Register on 9 June 1979, with 242 acres of land. It is included in "The Majesty of Natchez" (1969/1981/1986) (pp. 33-34), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 17), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (pp. 55-56), "The Great Houses of Natchez" (1986) (pp. 81-82), and "Louisiana Architecture, 1820-1840" (2005) (p. 57). |