Elms Court

Historic house in Mississippi, United States

United States historic place


Elms Court
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


31°31′54.97″N 91°23′43.07″W / 31.5319361°N 91.3952972°W / 31.5319361; -91.3952972
Area	163 acres (66 ha)
Built	1836 (1836)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	77000780^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 2, 1977

Elms Court is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.

Location

It is located at 542 John R. Junkin Drive in Natchez, Mississippi.

History

The mansion was built in 1835–1836.^[2] Galleries of lacy iron work said to have been brought from Belgium.^[3] In 1852, Francis Surget (1784-1856) purchased it for his daughter Jane (Surget) Merrill (1829-1866) and her husband Ayres Phillips Merrill II (1826-1883).^[2]^[4] Upon Surget's death in 1856, the property (including the house and eight enslaved people) was bequeathed to his daughter Jane.^[4]^[2]

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 2, 1977 and may be unique among Natchez plantation houses in being owned by a supporter of the Union cause leading up to and during the Civil War.^[5]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "SURGET FAMILY PAPERS, Mississippi Department of Archives and History". Mdah.state.ms.us. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
^ "Elmscourt, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi". Loc.gov. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
^ ^a ^b William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 100 [1]
^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1900. p. 528. Retrieved July 6, 2018 – via Internet Archive. Ayres P. Merrill II.