Property

Location Information
(for the Wesson Hotel Richardson House)

Name:

Wesson Hotel (Richardson House)

Address:

NE corner of Hotel Street and Railroad Avenue, East

City/County:

Wesson, Copiah County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

c.1877

No. of Stories:

Destroyed:

demolished 1982

Registration Information

NR Listing Date:

10 Oct 1972

Date Delisted:

15 May 1987

View National Register Nomination Form

Context/Comments

The Wesson Hotel, originally know as the Richardson House, was built about 1877 after a fire destroyed an earlier hotel on the same site which reportedly dated from 1864. The later hotel was built by the Mississippi Mills company and was named for John P. Richardson, son of Col. Edmund Richardson, president of the corporation. Because of its unchanged architecture and association with Mississippi Mills and the founding of Wesson, the hotel was a link with one of the most brilliant chapters in Mississippi's 19th-century economic history. Although listed on the National Register, the hotel was demolished by its owner in 1982.

This building had been listed on the National Register on 10 October 1972. Following its destruction in 1982, it was delisted from the National Register on 15 May 1987.