What I love about restoration nation is how slowly they pan over shots of the landscape, the house and the surrounding area. I really appreciate their approach to showing these gorgeous historic homes.
The tour was not, in any way, excessively "lengthy", because there was so very much information that needed to be included. Thanks for preparing and sharing this fascinating tour.
Oh. Wow. I could lose my heart to this home. I truly do admire the grand details that are in so many of your house tours, but the simplicity of this home's trimmings somehow just reach out and touch my heart. The grounds are so so SO beautiful. Thanks for conducting this tour.
I've got to learn more about your channel and restoration projects. I'm blown away by many of these homes you show. I see so many in my region ruining to the point of being demolished. Most from termites and not being properly maintained /water damage from leaks/etc. I'm very impressed. I've handled a couple of renovation projects I'm proud of but your level of appreciation of the historical significant elements of these homes is what blows my mind. Awesome work !!
I remember touring Mt. Repose in the 1970s. The furnishings were very beautiful and the house just had a feel of authenticity. I hope new ownership will return the home to a more traditional feel. The grounds are spectacularly beautiful. Thanks for a lovely tour.
I enjoy these videos, very educational not only in the architecture of the building but what was happening at that time in the country's history. Thanks for all your work.
I had an Emotional Reaction and started crying when you entered the Kitchen This feels like The One for Me! Love started on the drive in….& The Garden MAGICAL ⚜️🩵🩵🩵⚜️
Thank you so very much for sharing all of these gorgeous buildings from the past. Seems to me that some are just torn down too soon. Really appreciate your channel.
As usual, you’re enthusiasm is contagious. You speak to all the details that needed to be explained and I learned. This house is so beautiful thanks for posting.
There is an oil painting of a House Slave named Delia who was owned by William Bisland at Mount Repose. She likely lived in the interior upstairs Slave Quarters you show. The Bislands owned over 400 Slaves spread out over five plantations from Mount Repose in Natchez to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. She is currently hung at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi.
Wow yet another Natchez gem! So interesting to travel thro Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate all in one town. What a bustling area it must have been with all these wonderful homes. The drive up to this one is amazing! I love the trees, the inside is also amazing. LOVE the fireplace in the kitchen and the unique setup. Remarkable one family has owned it for so long and you could really do so much with it without too much updating at all.
Every tour you do is incredibly detailed and informative! You always do such a great job of capturing and sharing these homes in such a beautiful way. This tour is such a wonderful example of your depth of knowledge and dedication to explaining the history of the design and architectural elements that have made such an incredible historic home. Thanks for always being so thoughtful and thorough 😊.
Laine you shine with your knowledge on this one and I get such an education..the hones plaster is exquisite and I love the wallpaper they have chosen even the clouds with lightening bolt is very cute. 12 minutes in and I am in awe..Great job
Awesome tour. I wonder if the house was expanded as their family grew. It's too bad all of the original furniture was removed. I would want to track it down and buy a couple of pieces back, if possible. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!
What incredible leafy green views! So peaceful, and with so much potential. I have to say I adored how well your darling outfit picked up the blue patterns in that main hall wallpaper. :D We often see Victorian homes from across the country, but these Federal and Greek Revival properties are so interesting with their differences. The plaster work in the central hall and receiving room is exquisite in its simplicity. Love all of the history, and your interest in unraveling the mysteries in these homes. I was happy to see the comment below about the portrait of the enslaved woman who would have lived in that room. Look forward to learning a bit more about her.
I have always loved old buildings and I have been following you for quite a while now. I love the way you cover things but this video and this house were... just both magnificent...Thank you for your passion to restore these incredibly beautiful historic buildings as well as the magnificent way you educate.
Wow! Impressive history! I wonder if this home or its grounds has ever been used as the backdrop for a movie, because it sure gives an Old South ambiance!
I think the first little hexagon hoyse was the kitchen cuz it was separate from the main house to keep the heat away from the house and prevent fire's.I just LOVE the South.❤🍹🍉🍗🍖🍰🍨🥧☕️
Back in the old Pilgrimage days all of those homes out that way were very active- Edgewood and Mistletoe and so on. Seems quieter these days except of course Landsdowne with its lovely involvement in the ORN Weekends ❤❤❤❤
Hello Laine, I LOVE your videos, but this one inspired me to search for any of William Bisland's slave's names. In his will written on 6/18/1847 pg. 357 at the top, he names 3 servants as being Delis, Mingo and his wife Hannah. He wanted them to be able to retire and move in with any of his heirs. Obviously, he favored them. Looks like in 1820 he had 31 slaves, 1830 had 115 in 1840 had 88. I hope this helps.
John Bisland married Susannah Rucker daughter of Peter and Sarah Rucker and sister of Colby Rucker who settled in Grainger County Tn after rev War...my direct ancestor...
It already takes us about two weeks to produce these videos, and that’s after we manage to find the properties. Then we have to schedule, research, shoot, edit, sound select, etc etc. We do our best to lead you through the house, but unless we add an additional week to our production time per video, a floor plan isn’t going to happen. There are exactly two people creating this content, not a team of dozens like on a network show. I don’t know that people have any concept of how long it would take to create a floor plan to “show quickly”, but that’s just not something we can add to our plates. We hope you can still enjoy the content.
Gorgeous home. Not too hard to follow the layout. Yes, a little choppy with the rooms but that was normal to have a front parlor turned into a bedroom and still is in our home in Texas, for the sick and dying family that need caring for in their last moments of life. The kitchen was one that was extremely noticeable. The supporting wall in the middle of the space and the fireplace off in the corner. It's not that odd to me because my grandmother owned an 1894 Victorian style home in Galveston, 1900 Storm survivor and 3 Island raisings. While her home wasn't as quite choppy as this one and had only 1 addition added to it...many homes on the Island have had many additions added and one my friend rented a room on the ground level that was added after the last Island raising and the house was elevated to accommodate that and became a boarding house and still used today as that. And another friend had a Victorian survivor and filled to the gills with exquisite Victorian furniture he'd rescued and gave new life. That house was chopped up. Bad. A bathroom in the middle of the hallway that housed the front stairwell to enter the top floor. 😅 In order to enter the rest of the home, you would have to go through his master bedroom (old parlor) and enter through a kitchen, a bedroom, another bath, livingroom to get to the dining. 😂 the house was like a crazy fun house.
The building with the painted brick walls and varnished brick floors made me also think it was the original kitchen. Beautiful home, but the first thing that came to mind was if the woodwork was originally "naked." There seems to be an awful lot of paint on those fireplaces, and I mean a lot!
Mount Repose was built in 1824 for William Bisland the Son of John Bisland Sr. (wanted to make that correction) John Bisland Sr and family were originally from Scotland. He was a wealthy slave owner and so was his sons. You mentioned at the end of the video how you couldnt find any of the slaves from Mount Repose. I am a descendant of Charity Bisland, her son Henry and his wife Mariah Bisland who were all slaves of John Bisland and was given to William Bisland when John died. I have the Will papers and Inventory of all his "Stock" ! Charity was my 5th Great Grandmother. Her son Henry was my 4th. Charity gave birth to Henry and his father was one of the Bisland Son's. William Bisland owned Mount Repose and his brother Peter owned Mistletoe Plantation. I love how you did not neglect to mention the enslaved because they infact built these plantations for free. My family was enslaved on these plantations over 100 years. But the homes are beautiful nevertheless
Not sure what the camera person or editor was doing .. going from showing the porch and area then taking us to the meadows /back to porch and to a pond and back to the porch ??
While I am not from Natchez, I have been to Mt. Repose and the family who took all of the furniture when they sold the home were the heirs of the multi-generations of the original family. Why shouldn’t they take a grandfather, great-grandfather to g-g-g-g-g grandfather aka family heirlooms?
Because in Natchez it’s generally practiced that the items stay with the home. That way they are protected from being broken up, distributed to the four winds, and lost forever. The mentality that items stay with the home is why we have so many homes with original furnishings and decorative arts, unlike other areas.
Laine, you may be on to something theorizing that the markings on the doorway on the third floor may have been made by enslaved workers. Aside from mirroring the style found in the old church; I was thinking that it is unlikely that a child of the family who occupied the home; would have allowed thar level of freedom of expressionn by rhe children of the household; whereas the enlavwd workers, ironically, may have been given freedom of expression. Thank you for shsring
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Oh! What a gorgeous while very comfortable home that makes people want to live in there for generations!
Laine, you are truly the savant of these old majestic homes in your knowledge of architectural history. Can’t get enough of these homes!
What I love about restoration nation is how slowly they pan over shots of the landscape, the house and the surrounding area. I really appreciate their approach to showing these gorgeous historic homes.
The tour was not, in any way, excessively "lengthy", because there was so very much information that needed to be included. Thanks for preparing and sharing this fascinating tour.
Oh. Wow. I could lose my heart to this home. I truly do admire the grand details that are in so many of your house tours, but the simplicity of this home's trimmings somehow just reach out and touch my heart. The grounds are so so SO beautiful. Thanks for conducting this tour.
Agree, and well-said. First clue was the cheerful, youthful shade of green on the shutters, IMHO. Beautiful home.
I love your outfit! The floral pattern on those shorts with jacket are so pretty and elegant!!! Also, what a gorgeous home!
It is such a pleasure listening to your description of all the elements of the home! Thank you!
I like the guest at the end of the video.
He was a sweet boi
This place looks so peaceful and secluded- hence it's name. I love the wallpaper in the main hallway! Also love the back curved staircase!
I've got to learn more about your channel and restoration projects. I'm blown away by many of these homes you show. I see so many in my region ruining to the point of being demolished. Most from termites and not being properly maintained /water damage from leaks/etc. I'm very impressed. I've handled a couple of renovation projects I'm proud of but your level of appreciation of the historical significant elements of these homes is what blows my mind. Awesome work !!
I remember touring Mt. Repose in the 1970s. The furnishings were very beautiful and the house just had a feel of authenticity. I hope new ownership will return the home to a more traditional feel. The grounds are spectacularly beautiful. Thanks for a lovely tour.
I thought these were the traditional
- the overly white painted wood just doesn't do it justice.
So nice to listen to someone who can teach me so much. Thank you Laine for being so thorough, for knowing what you're talking about. 🙌🏼
I get chills watching your videos of historic homes. I can't imagine actually walking thru them!!
I enjoy these videos, very educational not only in the architecture of the building but what was happening at that time in the country's history. Thanks for all your work.
Absolutely charming! Huge fan of the federal design elements; the elegant simplicity that stands alone, no need of overdone ornamentation. More! 😊
I had an Emotional Reaction and started crying when you entered the Kitchen
This feels like The One for Me!
Love started on the drive in….& The Garden
MAGICAL
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Still Emotional and Inspired Over This One...
The Resonance...
Pure Love
Thank you so very much for sharing all of these gorgeous buildings from the past. Seems to me that some are just torn down too soon. Really appreciate your channel.
As usual, you’re enthusiasm is contagious. You speak to all the details that needed to be explained and I learned. This house is so beautiful thanks for posting.
Such a dream space. I could totally be at home on this property.
TY so much Lane for showing us this magnificent home.
There is an oil painting of a House Slave named Delia who was owned by William Bisland at Mount Repose. She likely lived in the interior upstairs Slave Quarters you show. The Bislands owned over 400 Slaves spread out over five plantations from Mount Repose in Natchez to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. She is currently hung at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi.
Thank you for that info!! We’ll have to go visit Delia and share her with all of you!
I can’t find different words for this home but Magnificent!!!! It would be a wonderful home to become a destination !!!! Love it as usual!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wow yet another Natchez gem! So interesting to travel thro Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate all in one town. What a bustling area it must have been with all these wonderful homes. The drive up to this one is amazing! I love the trees, the inside is also amazing. LOVE the fireplace in the kitchen and the unique setup. Remarkable one family has owned it for so long and you could really do so much with it without too much updating at all.
The grandeur of these homes make me want to move in today!! Thank you, Laine for sharing these gems in Natchez!!
i loved how you did this video, the more spaces you can show and explanations the better!
Not only is the kitchen gorgeous, I would nominate myself to always wash dishes with a view like that. No twisting my arm for certain. ❤
Every tour you do is incredibly detailed and informative! You always do such a great job of capturing and sharing these homes in such a beautiful way. This tour is such a wonderful example of your depth of knowledge and dedication to explaining the history of the design and architectural elements that have made such an incredible historic home. Thanks for always being so thoughtful and thorough 😊.
Another absolute beauty! The red brick herringbone floors… 😮😊❤
Thanks so much! 😊
Laine you shine with your knowledge on this one and I get such an education..the hones plaster is exquisite and I love the wallpaper they have chosen even the clouds with lightening bolt is very cute. 12 minutes in and I am in awe..Great job
Thank you, Laine, for answering my question about that bathroom with the brick fireplace!
You are so welcome!
Beautiful home and exceptional tour!! 🥰
Such an interesting well kept home. Love your videos Laine
Thank you so much!
Beautiful home! Thanks for describing all the details
Nice job. I live next door and could give you some insight into some of the mysteries if you’re ever back out.
Those trees are incredible! Oh mother nature ❤ The house is pretty incredible as well.
Absolutely fabulous! The grounds alone are just inspiring! We really enjoyed this special tour... thank you!
Love these old historical homes
Such a beautiful home and the modern additions/remodels have been done with such care.
Awesome tour. I wonder if the house was expanded as their family grew. It's too bad all of the original furniture was removed. I would want to track it down and buy a couple of pieces back, if possible. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!
Wow! What great and historic home. Thanks for the tour!👍
That is a massive property!!! 😮 So beautiful!
What incredible leafy green views! So peaceful, and with so much potential. I have to say I adored how well your darling outfit picked up the blue patterns in that main hall wallpaper. :D We often see Victorian homes from across the country, but these Federal and Greek Revival properties are so interesting with their differences. The plaster work in the central hall and receiving room is exquisite in its simplicity. Love all of the history, and your interest in unraveling the mysteries in these homes. I was happy to see the comment below about the portrait of the enslaved woman who would have lived in that room. Look forward to learning a bit more about her.
Laine, you are such a refined lady bright and well spoken. I love your videos. 🍃🌷
It’s beautiful!
I think it's beautifully done!
Wow!! That is truly an amazing property/estate!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us!!! ❤❤❤
What a beautiful home and so enjoyed the tour!!!❤️
I have always loved old buildings and I have been following you for quite a while now. I love the way you cover things but this video and this house were... just both magnificent...Thank you for your passion to restore these incredibly beautiful historic buildings as well as the magnificent way you educate.
Mississippi has some spectacular old homes
Wow! Impressive history! I wonder if this home or its grounds has ever been used as the backdrop for a movie, because it sure gives an Old South ambiance!
Always a fascinating tour with you, Laine! I hope Mt. Repose gets a wonderful & caring buyer. ✨️🍀✨️
I hope so too!
Wow, looks just like Tara!
Really good tour Laine and Kevin! I enjoyed it!
Too bad we can't click on the LIKE button more than once. This is such a beautiful home!
I think the first little hexagon hoyse was the kitchen cuz it was separate from the main house to keep the heat away from the house and prevent fire's.I just LOVE the South.❤🍹🍉🍗🍖🍰🍨🥧☕️
Thank you so much for sharing this excellent tour and architectural history with us. I always learn a lot watching your videos. Fabulous home.
Love this one!!! I’ve been to that church in Savannah - I attended one Sunday years ago while in the area. Went to Sunday school and a baptism too!
This another one I would love to own ,so wonderful!
Thanks Guys👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you for posting. We have looked at several of the homes you have posted in our search for a historic home!
Stunning! Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Beautiful and light with a lovely open feel. ❤️
Love it!
Very nice and livable with increasable history ❤
Beautiful home & grounds! ❤
Cool
Another amazing home tour!
Lovely home, and my favorite period, too!
That was awesome! Thanks for taking us along. I enjoyed that very much.
The wallpaper in that first upstairs bathroom. Wow 🥰
Yes! I paused to get a better look.
That is amazing! Wow!
Back in the old Pilgrimage days all of those homes out that way were very active- Edgewood and Mistletoe and so on. Seems quieter these days except of course Landsdowne with its lovely involvement in the ORN Weekends ❤❤❤❤
Fabulous.
I actually think my antiques just might fit in here with room to spare! Sold! lol 😆
love your videos ! You are so beautiful 💚💚💚💚
Thank you
What a maze! 😅 good job!!
I would buy the property just for the octagonal house 🤩
Could you share where the entrance foyer wallpaper is from? Also the trim paint color? Just breathtaking! Incredible home!
I would love to know about the wallpaper as well.
Hello Laine, I LOVE your videos, but this one inspired me to search for any of William Bisland's slave's names. In his will written on 6/18/1847 pg. 357 at the top, he names 3 servants as being Delis, Mingo and his wife Hannah. He wanted them to be able to retire and move in with any of his heirs. Obviously, he favored them. Looks like in 1820 he had 31 slaves, 1830 had 115 in 1840 had 88. I hope this helps.
If only...❤❤❤
Beautiful home. I thought the price would've been higher with all the acreage and additional buildings.
John Bisland married Susannah Rucker daughter of Peter and Sarah Rucker and sister of Colby Rucker who settled in Grainger County Tn after rev War...my direct ancestor...
Love your videos. A floorplan showing where you are would help. Just show it quickly as you move from room to room.
It already takes us about two weeks to produce these videos, and that’s after we manage to find the properties. Then we have to schedule, research, shoot, edit, sound select, etc etc. We do our best to lead you through the house, but unless we add an additional week to our production time per video, a floor plan isn’t going to happen. There are exactly two people creating this content, not a team of dozens like on a network show. I don’t know that people have any concept of how long it would take to create a floor plan to “show quickly”, but that’s just not something we can add to our plates. We hope you can still enjoy the content.
I reckon that soundtrack is an iteration of "The Cowboy in Me". (Took me a minute.) 🤗
Gorgeous home. Not too hard to follow the layout. Yes, a little choppy with the rooms but that was normal to have a front parlor turned into a bedroom and still is in our home in Texas, for the sick and dying family that need caring for in their last moments of life. The kitchen was one that was extremely noticeable. The supporting wall in the middle of the space and the fireplace off in the corner. It's not that odd to me because my grandmother owned an 1894 Victorian style home in Galveston, 1900 Storm survivor and 3 Island raisings. While her home wasn't as quite choppy as this one and had only 1 addition added to it...many homes on the Island have had many additions added and one my friend rented a room on the ground level that was added after the last Island raising and the house was elevated to accommodate that and became a boarding house and still used today as that. And another friend had a Victorian survivor and filled to the gills with exquisite Victorian furniture he'd rescued and gave new life. That house was chopped up. Bad. A bathroom in the middle of the hallway that housed the front stairwell to enter the top floor. 😅 In order to enter the rest of the home, you would have to go through his master bedroom (old parlor) and enter through a kitchen, a bedroom, another bath, livingroom to get to the dining. 😂 the house was like a crazy fun house.
That doggo is tired and hungry. 🤭
I love the large mirror, just think of the people who have looked at that mirror since 1824 🤔
The building with the painted brick walls and varnished brick floors made me also think it was the original kitchen. Beautiful home, but the first thing that came to mind was if the woodwork was originally "naked." There seems to be an awful lot of paint on those fireplaces, and I mean a lot!
Am I ready for the pop quiz? Federal style is symmetrical, equal number doors windows. Greak Revivel 🤔 woops, maybe I'm not ready. Lol
I am I love, again 😂❤
Mount Repose was built in 1824 for William Bisland the Son of John Bisland Sr. (wanted to make that correction) John Bisland Sr and family were originally from Scotland. He was a wealthy slave owner and so was his sons. You mentioned at the end of the video how you couldnt find any of the slaves from Mount Repose. I am a descendant of Charity Bisland, her son Henry and his wife Mariah Bisland who were all slaves of John Bisland and was given to William Bisland when John died. I have the Will papers and Inventory of all his "Stock" ! Charity was my 5th Great Grandmother. Her son Henry was my 4th. Charity gave birth to Henry and his father was one of the Bisland Son's. William Bisland owned Mount Repose and his brother Peter owned Mistletoe Plantation. I love how you did not neglect to mention the enslaved because they infact built these plantations for free. My family was enslaved on these plantations over 100 years. But the homes are beautiful nevertheless
Thank you so much for sharing this Xavier!!!
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Not sure what the camera person or editor was doing .. going from showing the porch and area then taking us to the meadows /back to porch and to a pond and back to the porch ??
Trying to make you mad
Beautiful - expansive home, but the bathrooms have too much wallpaper. It just gives them a very busy feeling.
Easy to fix, though 🙂
While I am not from Natchez, I have been to Mt. Repose and the family who took all of the furniture when they sold the home were the heirs of the multi-generations of the original family. Why shouldn’t they take a grandfather, great-grandfather to g-g-g-g-g grandfather aka family heirlooms?
Because in Natchez it’s generally practiced that the items stay with the home. That way they are protected from being broken up, distributed to the four winds, and lost forever. The mentality that items stay with the home is why we have so many homes with original furnishings and decorative arts, unlike other areas.
Laine, you may be on to something theorizing that the markings on the doorway on the third floor may have been made by enslaved workers. Aside from mirroring the style found in the old church; I was thinking that it is unlikely that a child of the family who occupied the home; would have allowed thar level of freedom of expressionn by rhe children of the household; whereas the enlavwd workers, ironically, may have been given freedom of expression. Thank you for shsring
Do they have alligators in Mississippi?
We do have some.
I’m surprised those damn Yankees did not torch it.
Yes, attacking civilian target are war crimes.