The house was built for Stephen Minor (1760–1815), a prominent plantation owner, in 1793.

It is one of the oldest houses in Natchez, dating even to the Spanish colonial period.

[2] Owned by attorney, cotton planter, and slaveholding entrepreneur William Aylette Buckner before the Civil War.

[1][2] Media related to Airlie (Natchez, Mississippi) at Wikimedia Commons

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