Property

Location Information
(for the U.S. Marine Hospital)

Name:

U.S. Marine Hospital [Charity Hospital]

Address:

801 Maple Street

City/County:

Natchez, Adams County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1849-1852

No. of Stories:

3.5

Destroyed:

1984

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

29 Nov 1978

Date Delisted:

15 May 1987

NR District Name:

Cemetery Bluff (1980)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

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Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Natchez Historic District

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Context/Comments

This building was constructed to serve as a Marine Hospital operated by the federal government. In the 1890s it became home to the Natchez Charity Hospital. (Established in 1805, the Natchez Charity Hospital became a state institution in 1839 and was operated as such until 1873, when it came under local control. It was reestablished as a state institution in 1884.) This building burned in 1984.

It had been individually listed on the National Register in 1978, and it was later included as element #6 in the Cemetery Bluff Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 24 October 1980. After the building burned in 1984 it was delisted from the National Register in 1987.

The hospital building is included in "The State of Mississippi – Historic Properties" (1982) (p. 1) and "Lost Landmarks of Mississippi" (2002) (pp. 121-123). [HABS: MS-148 (1936)]