Natchez · North Union Street
The Burn
Planter and banker John P. Walworth's 1834 Greek Revival house; the Lucy Room is in the main house and four rooms are in the garçonnière.
- Built
- 1834Built 1834 for John P. and Sarah Walworth (inn and individual nomination); the Upriver district inventory gives 1836.
- Style
- Greek Revival
- Architect
- Attributed to T. O. Hoyt (Upriver district inventory); builders Montgomery and Keys (nomination)
- Type
- B&B
- Rooms
- 5
- Area
- North Union Street
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
John P. Walworth, a wealthy planter, merchant, banker and politician, built the house in 1834, and the nomination calls it the oldest documented Greek Revival residence in Natchez. It originally stood on about 100 acres. During the Civil War it fell inside Union Fort McPherson and served as the engineering department’s headquarters. The Walworth family lived there for more than 100 years, and the house was an early Natchez Pilgrimage show house. The sources read do not address the enslaved people on whom a planter’s household of this period depended.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Address: 712 North Union St, Natchez, MS 39120
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.