| Cedar Grove Place reflects a transition from a small-scale vernacular farmhouse to a classically inspired Greek Revival form and provides an explicit representation of the stylistic evolution that occurred in Mississippi between 1820 and 1860. The house also attests to the increasing prosperity of the Church Hill area in the period before the Civil War. The property has acquired additional significance during the twentieth century as the residence of author Josephine Balfour Payne from 1938 to 1972, and as a residence of actor George Hamilton in the later 1970s. This house was individually listed on the National Register on 28 March 1979, with approximately 150 acres of land, and it was later included as a contributing element (element #1a) in the Church Hill Rural Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 8 September 2000. It is included in "Classic Natchez" (1996) (pp. 142-143). |