...Bryan E. Norwood This essay examines the southern picturesque, an architectural vision of the Old South formulated in the 1910s through 1930s in the Lower Mississippi River valley. This vision offered an oblique approach to the plantation big house that evoked a mythical antebellum past, presenting...

...Lydia Mattice Brandt; Philip Mills Herrington Beginning in 1963, tourists yearning to experience the world of Gone with the Wind could finally visit the Old South outside Atlanta, Georgia. The Antebellum Plantation was one of the first attractions to open at the state’s new Stone Mountain Park...

...Daniel Bluestone In 1845 Philip St. George Cocke commissioned Alexander Jackson Davis to design a Gothic revival villa for Belmead. In doing so he radically departed from the tradition of Palladian and classical architecture that had characterized elite Virginia plantations since the mid-eighteenth...