The Buckner Mansion dominates the corner of Jackson Avenue with a two-story portico held up by forty-eight fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns. Built in eighteen fifty-six for the cotton kingpin Henry Sullivan Buckner, this twenty-thousand-square-foot residence was a calculated move to outdo the home of his former business rival, Frederick Stanton. Buckner intended the structure to be the most extravagant private home in the city, and he commissioned architect Lewis E. Reynolds to realize his vision of a Greek Revival palace.
Buckner Mansion
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