Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi)

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Claremont
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Location366 Claremont Dr., Port Gibson, Mississippi
Coordinates 31°56′59″N90°59′33″W / 31.94972°N 90.99250°W / 31.94972; -90.99250 Coordinates: 31°56′59″N90°59′33″W / 31.94972°N 90.99250°W / 31.94972; -90.99250
Built1826
Built by Joshua G. Clarke
Architectural styleFederal
MPS Port Gibson MRA
NRHP reference No. 79003418 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1979

Claremont in Port Gibson, Mississippi is a historic Federal-style 1+12-story house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] [2]

It is a center hall plan house with a gallery to the rear. It is surrounded by live oak trees with Spanish moss. [2]

It was built in 1826 by Judge Joshua G. Clarke (d. 1828), who was the first judge appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court. [2]

It has been described as a "fine example of the late Federal style applied to a moderately sized country house". [2]

Clarke's descendant J. Cavitt Clarke III wrote: "As a sign of his success, about 1826, Judge Clarke built Claremont, among the first of the larger homes near Port Gibson." (citing Ed Polk Douglas, ed., Architecture in Claiborne County, Mississippi: A Selective Guide (Jackson: Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, 1974), page 72. ) [3] :1

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jack A. Gold (January 1979). "State of Mississippi Historic Sites Survey: Claremont". National Park Service . Retrieved October 5, 2016. with three photos from 1979
  3. J. Cavitt Clarke III (May 2013). "The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi's First Chancellor" (PDF). Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians. 20: 1–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2016-10-05.