Natchez by Design

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Plantation Publishing Co
Publisher Place: Natchez
Publisher Year: 1992
Edition: First Edition

Description: 104 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In designing the quilt called Stitches. . . Time. . . Natchez. . . Nine, it seemed to me fitting that an octagon shape representing eight-sided, breathtaking Longwood should be the centerpiece," said Laura Bailey Parks, pictured above with her award-winning textile in front of Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi. "Radiating from each of the eight sides of the central octagon would be architectural designs from eight additional mansions," she said. Longwood contributed not only the inspiration and centerpiece of the quilt but also two other architectural designs. "One is a column capital of acanthus leaves, and the other is a dainty sawn decoration of an overhanging roof cornice," Laura Parks said. Longwood, begun in 1860 and never completed on the interior, is the largest octagonal house in America and a National Historic Landmark. The other eight famous Natchez mansions from which interior and exterior designs were taken for the quilt are Auburn, DEvereux, Dunleith, Elms Court, Magnolia Hall, Melrose, Rosalie, and Stanton Hall.

ISBN: 0963182323