Longwood House (Natchez, Mississippi)

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140 Lower Woodville Road
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 442-5193
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With its unique octagonal design and onion dome, Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is one of the most famous plantation houses in the South, yet it remains largely unfinished.

Samuel Sloan, a Philadelphia architect, designed the home in 1859 for cotton planter Dr. Haller Nutt. Work was halted in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War. Dr. Nutt died of pneumonia in 1864, leaving the work incomplete. Of the thirty-two rooms planned for the house, only nine rooms on the basement floor were completed.

Haller Nutt's never-finished Natchez home, Longwood, was the last burst of southern opulence before war brought the cotton barons' dominance to an end.

Longwood survived decades of neglect and near-abandonment to become one of Natchez' most popular attractions.[9]