Discover longwood in natchez mississippi.
Longwood mississippi attic.
Longwood also known as nutt s folly is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 lower woodville road in natchez mississippi united states.
No matter how much you hear about longwood plantation before you actually visit for a tour nothing can really prepare you for what you find inside.
The house was built and designed by philadelphia architect samuel sloan for haller nutt a successful cotton planter and plantation owner in mississippi who made his fortune when he developed a commercial strain of cotton popular in the deep south.
Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the united states.
National register of historic places and is a national historic landmark.
Haller nutt and and his wife julia.
Longwood also known as nutt s folly is a grand antebellum mansion in natchez mississippi.
This six story 30 000 square foot mansion was designed by samuel sloan a well known architect from philadelphia for cotton baron haller nutt and his wife julia.
Construction began in 1860 but was halted in 1861 by rising tensions over the civil war.
A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large and exotic dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.
Longwood mansion natchez miss.
The rotundas in the second and third stories were to be open to the dome with galleries around circular openings on each of these two upper levels.