mansions

Designed by William Paul, the Devereaux was built as a cottage for William Staines in 1857 and expanded to a mansion for William Jennings in the 1870s.

Now a bed & breakfast and wedding venue, the Sully Mansion was constructed in 1890 for insurance magnate John Rainey. The house is named for its architect, Thomas Sully, who designed it in a Queen Anne style.

Built in 1849, the Briggs-Staub House at 2605 Prytania is one of the oldest mansions in the Garden District and the only one built in a Gothic Revival style.

Now the home of McGehee School for Girls, the Bradish Johnson House at 2343 Prytania was constructed in 1872 in a Second Empire style, which is rare in the Garden District.

This cottage at 2524 St. Charles Avenue was built in 1857 for Sophronie Louise Claiborne, daughter of Louisiana's first governor. Her Creole husband, de Marigny, was President of the Louisiana Senate.

Only 23 crumbling Corinthian columns remain of the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion in Mississippi. Designed by David Shroder for cotton planter Smith Daniell, the mansion was completed in 1861 as part of a vast plantation.

1868. Built by John Smedley. A large castellated mansion, the nucleus having square 3-storeyed towers at the angles, and the site enclosed by battlemented curtain-walls with out-towers.

The Grange in Harwich is a Grade-II listed brick mansion, later a sixth form college, built around 1911 by H. Steward Watling for H.G. Hepworth. Left vacant for many years, it suffered a major fire in July 2023.

Large country house. c1854-1868 by Benjamin Bucknall for William Leigh. Ashlar limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. High Victorian Gothic style. Built around small courtyard.