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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. Architecturally, the district includes a set of Greek Revival works that are of national-level significance, and many other styles including Late Victorian architecture. It has what is assessed to be the best Swiss Chalet Style work in Mississippi and it also has the best residential French Second Empire style work in Mississippi. Andrew Marschalk's printing office where the first book printed in Mississippi was printed in 1799, the site of American flag-raising, in 1798, by Andrew Ellicott near the House on Ellicott's Hill, and the traditional location of the earliest Sunday school south of Philadelphia, conducted at a Methodist church. == List of National Historic Landmark designated sites == Commercial Bank and Banker's House (c. 1837), consisting of the Commercial Bank Building, a "one-story three-bay stuccoed brick with stone facade commercial building of two-story height with Ionic portico," and the connected Greek Revival style. == List of contributing properties and pivotal properties == Adams County Courthouse (c. 1820), 201 S. Wall Street; considered one of the district's "pivotal" contributing buildings, a two-story Federal-style brick courthouse with a cupola. It was remodeled c. 1920 into Colonial Revival style with classical porticos. Presbyterian Manse (c. 1830), 307 S. Rankin Street Choctaw (c. 1835), NRHP-listed as Neibert-Fisk House First Presbyterian Church (1830), 117 S. Pearl Street John Baynton House, (c. 1833), 821 Main Street, NRHP-listed; also known as "Williamsburg" Trinity Episcopal Church (1822), Greek Revival, 305 Commerce Street South Green Leaves (1838), 303 S. Rankin Street; Greek Revival with doric columns Magnolia Hall (1858), 215 S. Pearl Street; NRHP-listed as the Henderson-Britton House Glen Auburn (c. 1875), 300 S Commerce Street; built by Christian Schwartz, described as "probably the most outstanding of the post-Civil War houses" in the district and as "the best example of the Second Empire style in the state of Mississippi." St. Mary's Cathedral (1882), 107 S. Union Street; also known as St. Mary Basilica Prentiss Club (1904), 211 N. Pearl Street; a yellow brick building in Second Renaissance Revival style, designed by New Orleans architects Soule and McDonald Temple B'nai Israel (1905), 213 South Commerce Street Stratton Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church (1909) A map delineating the area of the district, including a rectangle defined by Monroe, Pine, Orleans, and Broadway, but also a bit more, is provided in its 1979 NRHP nomination document.
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When was Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District listed on the National Register?
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 1979.
What type of historic resource is Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District?
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is recorded as the civil_war era.
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