Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is an historic antebellum octagonal Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez is the only city and county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 15,792 (as of the 2010 census). Located on the Mississippi River some 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and 85 miles (137 km) north of Baton Rouge,Louisiana, it is the 25th-largest city in the state. It is named for the Natchez tribe of Native Americans whose territory it was. They resisted the Europeans in the eighteenth century. Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley; it later served as the capital of the Mississippi Territory under the United States and then the state of Mississippi. Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is an historic antebellum octagonal mansion. The mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the United States. The mansion is known for its octagonal plan, byzantine onion-shaped dome, and the contrast between its ornately finished first floor and the unfinished upper floors. 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.
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Location: Natchez, Mississippi
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