Location Information
(for the "Melmont")
Name:"Melmont"
Address:715 Rankin Street, North
City/County:Natchez, Adams County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1855
Architectural Styles(s):Italianate, Greek Revival
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NR District Name:Upriver Residential (1983)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:309
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Natchez Historic District
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Context/Comments
A two-story, hip-roofed “Bracketed Greek Revival” house of brick construction, that has a double-tiered tetrastyle portico extending across three bays of its five-bay façade. The upper tier of the portico has an iron balustrade.

This building is listed as element #309 in the Upriver Residential Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 December 1983.

It is included in "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (p. 53) and "Louisiana Architecture 1840-1860" (2006) (p. 399).