The Buckner Mansion features a wrap-around gallery with massive Corinthian columns that dwarf the sidewalks of Jackson Avenue. Henry Sullivan Buckner, a wealthy cotton king, built the estate in eighteen fifty-six to prove his financial superiority over his rivals. He reportedly spent three million dollars on construction, an astronomical sum for the era. The mansion remains one of the largest private residences in the Garden District, a monument to the fleeting prosperity of the antebellum cotton trade before the Civil War ruined his fortune.
Buckner Mansion
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