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A significant grande dame of the area’s historic mansions, regal Magnolia Hall, circa 1858, sits atop a slight plateau at the northeast corner of Pearl and Washington Streets in uptown Natchez, Mississippi. Designed by Massachusetts architect and engineer J. Edwards Smith as the family home of Natchez native and cotton magnate Thomas Henderson, Magnolia Hall is an imposing Greek Revival structure with an opulent Ionic portico and interior Italianate embellishments in vogue “up East” at the time, most notably its marble mantels and floral designs of the centerhallway cornices and parlors’ ceiling medallions with their magnolia flourishes that influenced the mansion’s later name. Equally intriguing is Magnolia Hall’s brownstone exterior—walls of brick, stuccoed and then painted and scored the academically researched, original lush chocolate, replicating the modern mansions of the affluent and refined families (“Brownstoners”) of New York City and other notable upeast cities of the time. Interestingly, midnineteenthcentury Natchez boasted over a hundred brownstone structures; Magnolia Hall is one of only two remaining and the only one restored.

In 2016, when the members of The Natchez Garden Club and its endorsed nonprofit Preservation Society of Ellicott’s Hill began the vast exterior renovation of Magnolia Hall, they received from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History a substantial grant. Among its directives, this grant required that the facade, both its walls and majestic columns, must be returned to its historically accurate color—a wellkept secret that lay beneath over a century and a half of paint and patchwork. The resulting bold and innovative restoration has warranted praise for its historic accuracy in scraping away the layers of inauthentic color and inauthentic southern lore and replacing it with the genuine grandeur of its origin and honest reflection of its era. This historic home is open for tours daily.

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