Downriver Residential Historic District
Downriver Residential Historic District | |
A Greek Revival bank building from 1833 on Main Street. | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by S. Canal St., Orleans St., the Illinois Central Gulf RR tracks, and bayou between Union and Rankin Sts., Natchez, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 31°33′18″N 91°24′25″W / 31.55500°N 91.40694°W |
| Area | 57 acres (23 ha) |
| Architect | Bost, Robert; Neibert and Gemmell; et al. |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Italianate, etc. |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000385 |
| Added to NRHP | March 25, 1999 |
The Downriver Residential Historic District is a 57-acre (23 ha) historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 96 contributing buildings, 57 non-contributing ones, one contributing structure (railroad) and one non-contributing one (oil storage tanks).
It includes Greek Revival, Italianate, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Post-Modern architecture. The district includes six already-NRHP-listed properties, including:
- Ravenna
- Charles Patterson House (1898), at 506 Union Street, South, designed and built by Robert Bost
- Ravennaside (c.1900), at 601 Union Street, South
- Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.
- another Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.
The district was the eighth historic district in Natchez to be NRHP-nominated, and the seventh nominated by the Historic Natchez Foundation. Primarily residential, it had lower priority for historic preservation as it was less immediately threatened by commercial development.