Cotesworth

	Cotesworth
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The house in 1936
Location	One mile north of North Carrollton on the old Grenada Road.
Nearest city	North Carrollton, Mississippi
Coordinates	33°32′13.3″N 89°54′32.5″W / 33.537028°N 89.909028°W
Area	900 acres (360 ha)
Built	1847
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	78001592
Added to NRHP	June 9, 1978

Cotesworth is a historic mansion in North Carrollton, Mississippi, USA.

Location

The mansion is located on Old Grenada Road in North Carrollton, Carroll County, Mississippi.

History

The mansion was built as an inn in the 1840s.^[2]^[3] In 1847, it was acquired by local lawyer^[4] and future United States Senator James Zachariah George, who turned it into a Greek Revival mansion.^[2] He named it after Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.^[3]

Two decades after the American Civil War of 1861-1865, in 1887, Senator George built "a free-standing hexagonal library" on the grounds.^[2]

The mansion stayed in Senator George's family until 2013, when Katharine Saunders Williams, his great-great-granddaughter, donated it to establish the Cotesworth Culture and Heritage Center.^[5]

Heritage significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 9, 1978.^[4]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Visit Mississippi: Cotesworth
^ ^a ^b Mary Carol Miller, Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007, pp. 83-86
^ ^a ^b Mary McCahon Shoemaker (October 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Cotesworth" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-06-27. Five Photos (1977-1978)
^ Cotesworth Center

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[visitms-2] Visit Mississippi: Cotesworth

[marycarol-3] Mary Carol Miller, Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007, pp. 83-86

[nom-4] Mary McCahon Shoemaker (October 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Cotesworth" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-06-27. Five Photos (1977-1978)

[cotesworthcenter-5] Cotesworth Center

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