The Upriver Residential District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

Natchez, Mississippi Natchez ( ) is the county seat of and only city in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 14,520 (as of the 2020 census). Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, N ...

that was listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1983. It includes

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

Late Victorian Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian we ...

, Queen Anne, and other architecture, and has significance dating to 1790. It includes 389

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

. and Its border was defined, on the south and west, by the borders of the already-NRHP-listed

Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is a historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Important sites within the district include: *the location of Andrew Marschalk's pr ...

(essentially Monroe Street) and the

Downriver Residential Historic District The Downriver Residential Historic District is a historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 96 contributing buildings, 57 non-contributing ones, one c ...

. It includes the John Dicks House, which is believed to be the only work of

McKim, Mead, and White McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), Wil ...

in Mississippi and "one of the most outstanding Colonial Revival buildings in the state."

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Victorian architecture in Mississippi Queen Anne architecture in Mississippi Colonial Revival architecture in Mississippi Historic districts in Natchez, Mississippi Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub

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