| A two-story brick house, over a raised basement, with a Roman Ionic tetrastyle portico, "Choctaw" was built for real estate speculator and developer Joseph Neibert and later home of the prominent merchant and philanthropist Alvarez Fisk. Externally, is a late but highly significant example of the "Jeffersonian Classicism" mode of the Federal style that was first employed in the Natchez region in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The interior, however, is an early expression of the Greek Revival style. This building was individually listed on the National Register on 22 January 1979, and it was later included as element #611 in the Natchez-on-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 17 September 1979. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 9 May 1985. It is included in "The Majesty of Natchez" (1969/1981/1986) (p. 20), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (p. 32), "Natchez Walking Guide" (1985) (#13, p. 13), "The Great Houses of Natchez" (1986) (pp. 17-18), "Classic Natchez" (1996) (pp. 29, 94-95), "Louisiana Architecture, 1820-1840" (2005) (pp. 236-238), "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.41, ND43), and numerous other books. |