Property

Location Information
(for the Agricultural Bank)

Name:

Agricultural Bank [Britton & Koontz National Bank]

Address:

422 Main Street

City/County:

Natchez, Adams County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1833

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Natchez-On-Top-of-the-Hill (1979)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

279

Mississippi Landmark Information

Designated:

01-13-1998

Recorded:

09-23-2004

Book/Vol. No.:

V. 23C, p. 608

Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Natchez Historic District

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Context/Comments

Built in 1833, this temple-form building introduced the Greek Revival architectural style into Mississippi. It was mentioned by Joseph Holt Ingram in his book "The South-West, by a Yankee" (1835): "The Agricultural bank is unquestionably the finest structure in the city. It has been erected very recently on the south side of Main-street, presenting a noble colonnaded front, of the modernized Grecian style: being built somewhat after the model of the United States bank at Philadelphia; though brick and stucco are substituted for marble, and heavy pillars for the graceful column."

This building is listed 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 the "Natchez Walking Guide" (1985) (pp.68-69) and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.35, ND28). It is pictured in "Classic Natchez" (1996) (p. 28) and "Natchez City Streets Revisited (Images of America)" (1999) (p. 53).