Intersection of South Broadway and Washington streets

Edelweiss is a Swiss Chalet-style building dating to 1883. It offered a great view of the Mississippi River and a convenient location for the family of its first owner, Joseph O'Brien, a coal dealer at Natchez Under-the-Hill. Its design came from an 1875 architectural pattern book, part of a tradition of books that provided building ideas much as house plan and builder's magazines do today. Peter and Eliza Little gave part of the Rosalie property to the Methodist Church for the 1852 construction of The Parsonage. Like its neighbors, the house rests on a raised basement to provide a view over the edge of the bluff to the Mississippi River below. At the end of the Civil War, the Methodist Church sold The Parsonage as a private home. Natchez has several historic buildings that housed clergymen, including parsonages, manses, and rectories. Sawmill owner Peter Little built Rosalie in 1823 and named it for the French fort that once stood on a hill behind the house. Andrew L. Wilson bought Rosalie in the late 1850s, and the Union Army used it as headquarters after occupying Natchez in July 1863. In 1938, Wilson family members deeded Rosalie to the Mississippi State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which operates it as a house museum open to the public, and the house still contains the Wilson family's 1850s home furnishings.

Natchez, Mississippi · United States