Hope Farm is a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
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| Location | 147 Homochitto Street, Natchez, Mississippi |
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| Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
| Built | 1792 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Colonial, Spanish Colonial |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001037[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 22, 1975 |
History
editThe house was built by Carlos de Grand Pré from 1780 to 1792.[2] Simple Spanish provincial architecture. Mary Routh Ellis sold the farm to Eli Montgomery in 1833, and for 90 years it remained in Montgomery family.
Spain and England met here. Hope Farm, charming in its simplicity, had a section built in 1775, when the English owned the Natchez area. Then, in 1790, the Spanish Governor Carlos de Grand Pré added the gallery with its ornamented, sturdy columns. The building shows a merger of two different elements of building, and of two varying cultures.[3]
In 1926, it was purchased by J. Balfour Miller and his wife, Katherine Grafton Miller,[2] who founded the Natchez Pilgrimage and promoted Natchez as the epitome of the Old South.[4][5]
After Katherine Miller's death in 1983, the home and all of its furnishings was purchased by Ethel Green Banta, a Natchez native and the daughter of a close friend of Miller's. For 35 years, Banta ensured the home remained a central part of the Natchez Pilgrimage until she retired in 2018. In March 2023, a fire broke out at Hope Farm that claimed the life of Ethel Banta and caused extensive damage throughout the home. The cause of the fire is unknown.[6][7]
Heritage significance
editThe house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1975.[8]
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Hope Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ "Hope Farm, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi".
- ^ Hoelscher, Steven (September 2003). "Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 93 (3): 657–686. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.564.5202. doi:10.1111/1467-8306.9303008. JSTOR 1515502.
- ^ Browning, Norma Lee (March 4, 1951). "Quaint Old Natchez. Pre-Civil War Glories Live Again Thru Woman's Dreams". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 6. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ Obituaries, Natchez (March 30, 2023). "Ethel Green Banta". The Natchez Democrat. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ Graning, Stacy (March 25, 2023). "'She was Hope Farm and Hope Farm was Ethel Banta': Friends, city leaders reflect on Natchez home owner who died in fire". The Natchez Democrat. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "Hope Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
External links
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