Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is an antebellum octagonal mansion at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, and the largest octagonal house in the United States. The cotton planter Haller Nutt commissioned it from the Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, and construction ran from 1859 until about 1864 without ever being finished: the Pennsylvania craftsmen building it left in 1861 to join the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War, and Nutt died of pneumonia in 1864. The house has a distinctive octagonal plan topped by a Byzantine style onion dome, with nine finished rooms in the basement level and its upper floors left permanently unfinished under the terms of its deed. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark, and operates year round as a house museum run by the Pilgrimage Garden Club. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi) (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_(Natchez,_Mississippi), lead definition
Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.
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Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is an antebellum octagonal mansion at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, and the largest octagonal house in the United States. The cotton planter Haller Nutt commissioned it from the Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, and construction ran from 1859 until about 1864 without ever being finished: the Pennsylvania craftsmen building it left in 1861 to join the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War, and Nutt died of pneumonia in 1864. The house has a distinctive octagonal plan topped by a Byzantine style onion dome, with nine finished rooms in the basement level and its upper floors left permanently unfinished under the terms of its deed. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark, and operates year round as a house museum run by the Pilgrimage Garden Club.
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completion_date/completed = 1859-ca. 1864
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Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. Built in part by enslaved people, the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the United States.
In Style: Octagon House Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Octagon Mode, Italian Villa
View the Source2. Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Natchez, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Natchez, United States
Wikidata item Q6674508, property P131/P17 (location): Natchez, United States
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