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EDELWEISS

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1883. 209 S. Broadway St.

Mississippi’s premier example of the Swiss Chalet style derives from a design published in E. C. Gardner’s Illustrated Homes: A Series of Papers Describing Real Houses and Real People (1875). Built for Joseph and Louisa O’Brien, Edelweiss is more elaborate than Gardner’s prototype. A front-gabled roof shelters inset galleries that encircle the house, and a profusion of intricate stickwork fills the upper gable that is supported on bracketed posts. A central semicircular arch with pendant defines the entrance, and a sawn balustrade encloses the encircling galleries and the rear upper-story balcony.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "EDELWEISS", [Natchez, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND36.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 38-38.

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