page_title: Richmond (Natchez, Mississippi)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Richmond (Natchez, Mississippi) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Title Richmond, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi Contributor Names Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Created / Published 1938. Subject Headings - United States--Mississippi--Adams County--Natchez - Railings. - Stairways. - Porticoes (Porches). - Wings (Building divisions). - Houses. - Mississippi--Adams County--Natchez Format Headings Photographic prints. Notes - Title from photographer's inventory. - Central portion is oldest, of provincial Spanish workmanship. Rear portion is two story 18th century brick. Front is classic portico and columns. Marshall family have owned it for over 100 years. - Building/structure dates: ca. 1790. - Corresponding Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South neg. no. 1066. Library has no record of having this neg. - Related names: Marshall descendants. - Gift; Anne E. Peterson; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:206) - Forms part of: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress). Medium 1 photographic print. Call Number/Physical Location LOT 11838-1 [item] [P&amp;P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 32374 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32374 Control Number csas201207202 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-32374 (digital file from photograph) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photographic print.
context_page_description: Richmond is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. It was the nineteenth century private residence of a leading businessman and agricultural landowner in Natchez.
context_section_description: The property was originally owned by Juan St. Germaine, a Native American interpreter. Local and family tradition claim a first construction date of 1784 for the mansion, though other sources use a ca. 1800-1810 date based on details of the original interior's Federal style woodwork.
  In 1832, the property was purchased for $7,500 by Levin R. Marshall, a wealthy banker and planter who was the first president of the Commercial Bank. Shortly after, the furniture, which is still there, was shipped from New York City. Improvements were made in 1832, and by 1840, the house had been extended to the west with an addition in the Greek Revival architectural style. A third section was added in 1860.
  Marshall was a wealthy businessman and invested in agriculture, by the start of the Civil War he had 2,500 acres in Adams County alone, worked by 150 slaves and another 32 servants at the Richmond mansion. His total holdings exceeded 25,000 acres in three states. His son, George, married a daughter of the very rich planter David Hunt and resided at Lansdowne. Richmond passed to Marshall's widow upon his death at age 69 in 1870, and was still occupied by the Marshall family in 2011.
caption: Richmond, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938
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