The Wesson Hotel, originally know as the Richardson House, was built about 1877 after a fire destroyed an earlier hotel on the same site which reportedly dated from 1864. The later hotel was built by the Mississippi Mills company and was named for John P. Richardson, son of Col. Edmund Richardson, president of the corporation. Because of its unchanged architecture and association with Mississippi Mills and the founding of Wesson, the hotel was a link with one of the most brilliant chapters in Mississippi's 19th-century economic history. Although listed on the National Register, the hotel was demolished by its owner in 1982. This building had been listed on the National Register on 10 October 1972. Following its destruction in 1982, it was delisted from the National Register on 15 May 1987. |