| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 134 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Laurel Hill -- Salisbury -- Linden -- Lonewood -- Allen-Morgan House -- Bellevue -- Etania -- Glenwood -- Kirkwood -- Austin Moore House -- Prospect Hill -- Mount Hermon -- O.J. Moore House -- Montebello -- Tullis-Toledano Manor -- Stephenson-McAlexander House -- Three Oaks -- Valleyside -- Grasslawn -- Carter-Tate House -- Llangollen -- Colonel Thomas White House -- Shipp House -- Turner Lane House -- Skipwith House -- Eagle's Nest -- Delta Psi House |
| Summary |
As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven houses included in her new book are among the most memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The list ranges from the oldest house in the Natchez region, lost in a 1966 fire, to a Reconstruction-era home that found new life as a school for freed slaves. From two Gulf Coast landmarks both lost to Hurricane Katrina, to the mysteriously misplaced facades of Hernando' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- Mississippi.
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Mansions -- Mississippi
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Lost architecture -- Mississippi
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architecture, Domestic
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Lost architecture
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Mansions
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Mississippi
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010010308 |
| ISBN |
9781604737875 |
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1604737875 |
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9781604737868 |
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1604737867 |
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1282755897 |
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9781282755895 |
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9786612755897 |
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661275589X |
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