The Ladies' home journal . nds high above the brown Mississippiand decorating the lush snrroimding countryside. Gloucester is a goodbeginning, for it wa> the home of the first territorial governor, a rigidNew Englander, named Winthrop Sargent, who came to this alreadycolorful coirununit\ about 1800, tried his Yankee best to resist itsblandishments, and finalK gave in to its luxurious <lelights. He now liesburied beneath a great magnolia on the lawn of his house whose Georgianmanner lie might have brought with him from Massachusetts—a stylethat the climate of iNatchez embellished after it
The Ladies' home journal . nds high above the brown Mississippiand decorating the lush snrroimding countryside. Gloucester is a goodbeginning, for it wa> the home of the first territorial governor, a rigidNew Englander, named Winthrop Sargent, who came to this alreadycolorful coirununit\ about 1800, tried his Yankee best to resist itsblandishments, and finalK gave in to its luxurious <lelights. He now liesburied beneath a great magnolia on the lawn of his house whose Georgianmanner lie might have brought with him from Massachusetts—a stylethat the climate of iNatchez embellished after its own exul)erant fashion. l/ie iipliolslcrcd pieces in the yellow droning room at Gloucestershow the ejfiii of the I iclorian fashion which found the Natchezhomes such willinfi and wonderful settings for its romantic elegance. The small hhrary a, Gloucester has an eighteenth-century mantel fromtrance, Meissen garnitures from Germany, a secretary from Englandand paintings from Italy-typical of the importations of the time.
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