Commercial Bank Building

This is a bank with a home attached. Chartered in 1833, the Commercial Bank put its banking room and the banker's residence under one design, for security. The Main Street front is a Greek temple with four Ionic columns, and the brick walls are scored plaster made to look like large blocks of stone. Italian marble mantels fill the house. Levin R. Marshall, a founder and for several years president, is believed to have used it as a townhouse for his family. It later served as a girls' school and a boarding house.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture — steps away
  A museum in the old 1904 post office on Main Street, opened in 1991, covering slavery, Reconstruction and the Natchez civil rights movement.
• William Johnson House — steps away
  The brick home and shop block of a free Black barber and diarist in Natchez, who enslaved others himself and was shot by a neighbor in 1851.
• Fort Rosalie — 0.4 mi
  The bluff where the French built Fort Rosalie in 1716 and the Natchez attacked it in 1729, now a free Natchez National Historical Park site beside the southern end of the Natchez Trace.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 0.9 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.

More markers nearby

• Natchez Burning — steps away
• Andrew Marschalk — steps away
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi
• Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.5 mi