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.
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 😊.
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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!
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 ??
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
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.
I started a question about what I thought was the original summer kitchen--the brick room with a fireplace. Decided to wait 'til the end of the vid.....yup, that's what it is....thanx!!!
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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.
It is such a pleasure listening to your description of all the elements of the home! Thank you!
I love your outfit! The floral pattern on those shorts with jacket are so pretty and elegant!!! Also, what a gorgeous home!
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.
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!
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'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 get chills watching your videos of historic homes. I can't imagine actually walking thru them!!
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.
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.
TY so much Lane for showing us this magnificent home.
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
I like the guest at the end of the video.
He was a sweet boi
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!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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.
i loved how you did this video, the more spaces you can show and explanations the better!
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 😊.
Thank you, Laine, for answering my question about that bathroom with the brick fireplace!
You are so welcome!
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.
Beautiful home and exceptional tour!! 🥰
Wow!! That is truly an amazing property/estate!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us!!! ❤❤❤
What a beautiful home and so enjoyed the tour!!!❤️
The grandeur of these homes make me want to move in today!! Thank you, Laine for sharing these gems in Natchez!!
Such an interesting well kept home. Love your videos Laine
Thank you so much!
Beautiful home! Thanks for describing all the details
Those trees are incredible! Oh mother nature ❤ The house is pretty incredible as well.
I think it's beautifully done!
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!👍
Really good tour Laine and Kevin! I enjoyed it!
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!
Absolutely fabulous! The grounds alone are just inspiring! We really enjoyed this special tour... thank you!
Always a fascinating tour with you, Laine! I hope Mt. Repose gets a wonderful & caring buyer. ✨️🍀✨️
I hope so too!
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
Another absolute beauty! The red brick herringbone floors… 😮😊❤
Thanks so much! 😊
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.
Stunning! Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Such a beautiful home and the modern additions/remodels have been done with such care.
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.
Beautiful and light with a lovely open feel. ❤️
Thank you so much for sharing this excellent tour and architectural history with us. I always learn a lot watching your videos. Fabulous home.
That was awesome! Thanks for taking us along. I enjoyed that very much.
That is a massive property!!! 😮 So beautiful!
Nice job. I live next door and could give you some insight into some of the mysteries if you’re ever back out.
Laine, you are such a refined lady bright and well spoken. I love your videos. 🍃🌷
Thank you for posting. We have looked at several of the homes you have posted in our search for a historic 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!
Such a dream space. I could totally be at home on this property.
It’s beautiful!
Beautiful home & grounds! ❤
Thanks Guys👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹
Another amazing home tour!
This another one I would love to own ,so wonderful!
Lovely home, and my favorite period, too!
Very nice and livable with increasable history ❤
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.
Love these old historical homes
That is amazing! Wow!
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!
Too bad we can't click on the LIKE button more than once. This is such a beautiful home!
Love it!
The wallpaper in that first upstairs bathroom. Wow 🥰
Yes! I paused to get a better look.
Beautiful ❤️
Mississippi has some spectacular old homes
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 ❤❤❤❤
love your videos ! You are so beautiful 💚💚💚💚
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.
Fabulous.
Thank you
Wow, looks just like Tara!
Beautiful home. I thought the price would've been higher with all the acreage and additional buildings.
What a maze! 😅 good job!!
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. ❤
I actually think my antiques just might fit in here with room to spare! Sold! lol 😆
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 would buy the property just for the octagonal house 🤩
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...
If only...❤❤❤
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.
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!!!
That doggo is tired and hungry. 🤭
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!
I reckon that soundtrack is an iteration of "The Cowboy in Me". (Took me a minute.) 🤗
I love the large mirror, just think of the people who have looked at that mirror since 1824 🤔
Am I ready for the pop quiz? Federal style is symmetrical, equal number doors windows. Greak Revivel 🤔 woops, maybe I'm not ready. Lol
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 🙂
I am I love, again 😂❤
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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
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.
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.
I started a question about what I thought was the original summer kitchen--the brick room with a fireplace. Decided to wait 'til the end of the vid.....yup, that's what it is....thanx!!!