Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi)
| Homewood Plantation | |
|---|---|
Homewood Mansion in 1936 | |
| 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(s) | 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. 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.