| Known historically as the John Baynton House, Williamsburg is a small by elegant one-and-a-half story frame house with exceptionally fine detail in the Federal style. Built for Natchez land speculator, John Baynton, the house later became the home of the Junkin family, antecedents of John R. Junkin, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives in the 1970s. This building was individually listed on the National Register on 16 October 1974, and it was later included as element #318 in the Natchez-on-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 17 September 1979. It is included in "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 30), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (p. 71), and "Louisiana Architecture, 1820-1840" (2005) (p. 232). [HABS: MS-54 (1936/1972)] |