We spent two days in Natchez during its Spring Pilgrimage, when many of the city’s historic homes are open for tours. We walked around the streets of this lovely city, along its river and cliff walks, and toured the interior of two houses. Melrose is part of the Natchez National Historic Park and Longwood, which was to have been the largest octagonal home in the country. With plans taken from a design book by Samuel Sloan, a Philadelphia architect,  work began on Longwood in 1859, but was halted just after the Civil War began, with only the basement floor completed. The house is preserved as a museum, without completion of the upper stories.

We stayed in the 1888 Wensel House, beautifully reconstructed by innkeepers, preservationists, and architectural historians Mimi and Ron Miller.

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