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.
Longwood mississippi attic.
Longwood also known as nutt s folly was designed in 1859 by philadelphia architect samuel sloan for cotton planter dr.
Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the united states.
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.
Haller nutt and and his wife julia.
The mansion is on the u s.
A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large and exotic dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.
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.
National register of historic places and is a national historic landmark.
Construction began in 1860 but was halted in 1861 by rising tensions over the civil war.
Discover longwood in natchez mississippi.
The attic or third floor was to contain a central rotunda 24 by 24 feet and four rectangular rooms each measuring 21 by 24 feet.
Longwood also known as nutt s folly is a grand antebellum mansion in natchez mississippi.