Stately Greek Revival Mansion surrounded by historic gardens, Green Leaves is one of the great Natchez houses where succeeding generations of a single family have carefully preserved the original furnishings and extensive family memorabilia that dates to the mid 1800s. Step back in time and experience over 170 years of Natchez history!
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INGLESIDE 1839
Ingleside is a traditional Greek Revival townhouse begun in the late 1830s by plantation widow Anna Dunbar Smith. It is known for its numerous elaborate interior and exterior designs inspired by the celebrated American architect Asher Benjamin’s carpenter books. Ingleside became the center of Southern Nurseries, founded by the renowned American horticulturalist Thomas Affleck after his marriage to Anna in 1842. The original 48-acre grounds of Ingleside include surviving ancient trees and landscaping, a once-terraced garden, and a nursery designed by Affleck. Affleck was the landscape architect of the original capital grounds of the Louisiana Old State Capitol, known as the “Castle on the Hill.”
- See original 1830s dining room punkah (in the shape of a woman) and elaborate marble fireplace mantels in every room.
- Explore Affleck’s original planted estate and the historical sites of the head gardener’s house, enslaved quarters, cisterns, terraced grounds, and rose memorial garden.
- View the home’s front parlor with an ornate plaster ceiling medallion, inspired by Minard Lafever’s 1835 publication, The Beauties of Modern Architecture.