Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi)
| Homewood Plantation | |
|---|---|
Homewood Mansion in 1936 | |
Interactive map of the Homewood Plantation area | |
| General information | |
| Status | Burnt down in 1940 |
| Type | Plantation house in the Southern United States |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival architecture in North America |
| Location | Natchez, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Construction started | 1855 |
| Completed | 1860 |
| Height | |
| Roof | Hipped |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | Five |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | James Hardie |
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Homewood is an historic estate in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. It was created beginning in 1855 as a wedding present for the Southern belle Catherine Hunt and her husband William S. Balfour on 600 acres given to the couple by Catherine's father David Hunt. The plantation house remained unscathed during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. By the early twentieth century, it was used as a shooting location for 1915 classic film The Birth of a Nation. The author Stark Young used Homewood as the setting of a wedding in his 1934 novel So Red the Rose (pages 414 and 415). The mansion burnt down in 1940.