FOR SALE: Brandon Hall Plantation c.1856

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Brandon Hall is located in a park-like setting east of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Built in 1856, the Greek Revival house is one of the grandest plantation mansions in Adams County. The house was built as the home of Gerard Brandon III and his wife Charlotte. Brandon was the son of Gerard Brandon, Jr., the first native-born governor of Mississippi, and the grandson of Gerard Brandon who arrived in Mississippi during the Spanish period and established nearby Selma Plantation. After the deaths of Gerard and
Charlotte Brandon in the 1870s, the house became the home of their daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband Aaron Stanton. Stanton was the son of David Stanton of The Elms and the nephew of Frederick Stanton of Stanton Hall, both in Natchez. The house remained in the ownership of Brandon descendants until 1914.

Brandon Hall is a large, two-story, frame house with a pyramidal roof. The house is fronted by a two-story gallery with superimposed classical orders. The lower gallery features Ionic columns with higher order, Corinthian columns on the upper gallery. The Corinthian columns are modeled on the Tower of the Winds. Likewise, the first-story entrance doorway is framed by an Ionic frontispiece, and the second-story doorway is framed by a Corinthian frontispiece. The first-story Ionic gallery wraps around the house
to form a one-story gallery on the side elevations. Columns on both levels are linked by a cast-iron balustrade with a lyre motif. All windows that open onto one of the galleries are set above hinged panels known as jib doors. Where exterior walls are protected by galleries, they are finished in scored stucco on lath.

The interior of Brandon Hall features a triple-pile plan (three rooms deep) with an expansive central hall that measures eighteen by sixty-two feet. Only Stanton Hall has a larger central hall. Brandon Hall’s staircase, which features a swan’s neck newel post, is entered at the rear of the hall. Several patterns of Grecian motifs decorate the interior of the house with the most elaborate scheme reserved for the central hall and the double parlors. Window and door surrounds are symmetrically molded with corner blocks,
mantelpieces are marble, and the plaster entablatures and medallions feature a wide variety of Grecian motifs, including the water leaf, egg-and-dart, palm, honeysuckle, and acanthus. The dining room and library are not as lavishly decorated. The window and door surrounds have shouldered architraves, the mantelpieces are wood, and cornices are more simply rendered.

Brandon Hall passed through nine owners between 1914 and 1983, when it was acquired by the Diefenthal family of New Orleans. Only forty of its original acres were intact. The Diefenthal family undertook a massive rehabilitation, which included the construction of new dependency buildings. The Diefenthal family has been generous in sharing Brandon Hall with the Natchez community and its civic and charitable organizations.

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