Property

Location Information
(for the First Presbyterian Church II)

Name:

First Presbyterian Church (II)

Address:

117 Pearl Street, South

City/County:

Natchez, Adams County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1829

Architectural Styles(s):

Federal, Greek Revival

No. of Stories:

Remodeling Date:

1851

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

22 Dec 1978

NR District Name:

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

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

403

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Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Natchez Historic District

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Context/Comments

The most outstanding example of an early 19th-century Federal Style church building in Mississippi. Completed in 1829 and dedicated on New Year's Day, 1830, the building underwent a major sanctuary enlargement in 1851, and an educational wing was added in 1901; the basic integrity of the structure, however, remains unaffected. Originally, the building was red brick with buff-colored stuccoed pilasters. In 1836, the entire exterior was stuccoed in the Greek Revival mode.

This building was individually listed on the National Register on 22 December 1978, and it was later listed as element #403 in the Natchez-on-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 17 September 1979.

This church is included in "Historic Churches of the South" (1952) (pp. 85-87), "Look to the Rock: One Hundred Ante-bellum Presbyterian Churches of the South" (1961), "Shrines to Tomorrow" (1971), the "Natchez Walking Guide" (1985) (#46, pp. 34-35), "Historic Churches of Mississippi" (2007) (pp. 100-101), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.36, ND31).