Our Tour Venues
Ahern's Belle of the Bends
This breathtaking Italianate mansion sits
atop a bluff overlooking the
Mississippi River
and is one of Mississippi's best preserved
historical homes.
It showcases beautiful oval,
arched woodwork and trim and intricate Bavarian
plaster and gold leaf crown moldings throughout.
Four original chandeliers
and many original
antiques adorn its interior.
http://www.belleofthebends.com/
Duff Green
The lovely 3-story Duff Green Mansion was
constructed by
skilled slave labor and was used
as a hospital for Confederate and
Union solders
during the Civil War.
http://www.duffgreenmansion.com
McNutt House
Governor Alexander McNutt's home prior to
his becoming the State's
12th Governor is among
the oldest residences in Vicksburg and is listed
in the
National Register of Historic Places in
addition to State and County
Historic Landmarks.
http://www.themcnutthouse.com
Featherston-Magruder House
One of the few surviving antebellum
homes in the dead center of historic
Vicksburg, the Featherston-Magruder House is
a magnificent example of an
Italianate
Revival remodel of a classic Greek Revival
architecture. The original
building, erected
in 1831, was built by Richard Featherston, a
planter and
school teacher, to put his
family and the town's first school room all
under the
same roof. The Featherston family
was a perfect example of early American
migration and its impact on the civil war.
McRaven Tour Home
Hear the fascinating and sometimes
eerie stories about the people who once
called McRaven home. National Geographic
Magazine has called it the
"time capsule
of the South." Explore the architecture
of three different time
periods:
Frontier (1797), Empire (1836), and
Greek Revival (1849).
https://www.mcraventourhome.com
Christ Episcopal Church
The cornerstone of Christ
Episcopal Church was laid on
April 19, 1830.
A simple structure of brick
and mortar with wood framing
complete with a
cast iron bell from
Philadelphia. Bishop James
Harvey Otey of Tennessee
conducted
the formal consecration ceremony on May 3, 1843.
Reverend W. W. Lord was
rector in 1851 and despite
constant bombardment
from Union gunboats during
the Civil War, conducted
daily church services.
The historical marker in
front of the church offers
all who come, a place to
find,
at least for a short time,
in all the turmoil, a sense
of peace, some degree of
sanctuary,
and maybe for a time not be
afraid.
St. George Orthodox
Church
At the latter part of the
nineteenth century, a
handful of people
who migrated from Syria and
Lebanon traveled up the
Mississippi River
to settle in Vicksburg. They
formed a community of their
own, thousands
of miles from their
homeland. Although the early
days were difficult and
challenging,
these courageous people
worked hard and stuck
together to acquire
their own house of worship.
St. George was one of the
first Orthodox churches
in the southern part of the
United States.
In 2006, St. George
celebrated its 100th
anniversary, as the oldest
Antiochian Orthodox Church
in Mississippi and the
South.
http://www.stgeorgevicksburg.org
Baer House Inn
In 1870, Leona and Lazrus
Baer constructed this huge
Victorian home
with a goal of impressing
guests with the elaborate
woodwork and a grand
ballroom.
It was designed to be
similar to the large
Eastlake Victorians just
becoming
popular for the wealthy in
America. Mrs. Baer was
adamant that the kitchen be
inside the house and that
there be privies on the
first floor for guests
and on the second floor for
family; a his-and-hers
two-story outhouse
was the result! The home had
11 fireplaces, 4 cisterns, a
wellhouse
and a carriage house. It is
one of the best examples of
Eastlake Victorian style
in the state of Mississippi
and is included in
"Victorian Houses of
Mississippi.”
The Baer House Inn is listed
on the National Register of
Historic Places.
http://www.baerhouseinn.com
Cedar
Grove
John Alexander Klein, a
planter and businessman,
built this Greek Revival
style mansion for his
16-year-old bride. Klein
bought many of the Italian
marble fireplaces, French
empire gasoliers, Bohemian
glass for the doorway,
towering gold leaf mirrors,
exquisite clocks and
paintings while in Europe on
their
honeymoon. The mansion was
completed in 1852. During
the siege, the home
experienced
bombardment by cannon. A
cannon ball is still lodged
in the parlor wall.
The house remained in tact
mainly because it had been
used as a Union hospital.
http://www.cedargroveinn.com
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Holy
Trinity Episcopal Church
Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church was
founded in 1869 by members
of Vicksburg's
first Episcopal parish,
Christ Church. Over the next
decade, the congregation
worshipped regularly in the
chapel while raising funds
to build the new church.
In 1878, a yellow fever
epidemic struck Vicksburg
and three of the founding
members of Holy Trinity
died. The building project
was delayed six months
while the congregation
mourned this loss. The
congregation worshipped in
the
new church building on March
28, 1880, and celebrated the
completion of the
building and also
installation of the first
stained glass windows. The
church building
was finally consecrated on
June 24, 1894, after
completion of the interior
work,
furnishing, and payment of
the final construction debt.
The Mary
Harwood House
Church of St.
George Greek
Orthodox
Catherine's
Palace
Built during the
nineteenth
century (1839)
on the Old
Jackson Road
leading to
downtown
Vicksburg, as a
home and grocery
story by
Christian and
Dorothea
Fleckenstein of
Bavaria,
Germany. It
served as a
home and grocery
store in the
twentieth
century by
Italian
immigrants,
Joseph and Catherine Coccaro. Catherine’s Palace is being preserved
in the
twenty-first
century as a Bed
and Breakfast
enterprise.
Currently
preserved on the
exterior, but
incomplete on
the interior.
Come tour a work in progress in preparation for Vicksburg’s third century.
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