Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi)


Claremont
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	366 Claremont Dr., Port Gibson, Mississippi
Coordinates	31°56′59″N 90°59′33″W / 31.94972°N 90.99250°W / 31.94972; -90.99250
Built	1826
Built by	Joshua G. Clarke
Architectural style	Federal
MPS	Port Gibson MRA
NRHP reference No.	79003418^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 22, 1979

Claremont in Port Gibson, Mississippi is a historic Federal-style 1+1⁄2-story house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]^[2]

It is a center hall plan house with a gallery to the rear. It is surrounded by live oak trees with Spanish moss.^[2]

It was built in 1826 by Judge Joshua G. Clarke (d. 1828), who was the first judge appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court.^[2]

It has been described as a "fine example of the late Federal style applied to a moderately sized country house".^[2]

Clarke's descendant J. Cavitt Clarke III wrote: "As a sign of his success, about 1826, Judge Clarke built Claremont, among the first of the larger homes near Port Gibson." (citing Ed Polk Douglas, ed., Architecture in Claiborne County, Mississippi: A Selective Guide (Jackson: Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, 1974), page 72. )^[3]^: 1

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Jack A. Gold (January 1979). "State of Mississippi Historic Sites Survey: Claremont". National Park Service. Retrieved October 5, 2016. with three photos from 1979
^ J. Cavitt Clarke III (May 2013). "The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi's First Chancellor" (PDF). Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians. 20: 1–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.

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