Downriver Residential Historic District

Downriver Residential Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
A Greek Revival bank building from 1833 on Main Street.
Location	Roughly bounded by S. Canal St., Orleans St., the Illinois Central Gulf RR tracks, and bayou between Union and Rankin Sts., Natchez, Mississippi
Coordinates	31°33′18″N 91°24′25″W
Area	57 acres (23 ha)
Architect	Bost, Robert; Neibert and Gemmell; et al.
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate, etc.
NRHP reference No.	99000385
Added to NRHP	March 25, 1999

The Downriver Residential Historic District is a 57-acre (23 ha) 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 contributing structure (railroad) and one non-contributing one (oil storage tanks).

It includes Greek Revival, Italianate, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Post-Modern architecture. The district includes six already-NRHP-listed properties, including:

• Ravenna
• Charles Patterson House (1898), at 506 Union Street, South, designed and built by Robert Bost
• Ravennaside (c.1900), at 601 Union Street, South
• Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.
• another Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.

The district was the eighth historic district in Natchez to be NRHP-nominated, and the seventh nominated by the Historic Natchez Foundation. Primarily residential, it had lower priority for historic preservation as it was less immediately threatened by commercial development.

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