Homewood was an historic estate with a mansion of the same name located on it in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.

The author Stark Young used Homewood as the setting of a wedding in his 1934 novel So Red the Rose (pages 414 and 415).

Homewood was located north of the Natchez, Mississippi city limits on Pine Ridge Road.

[9] The Balfours moved to Homewood, where their eleven enslaved Africans lived and worked, in 1860 with their six children.

[3] Generally, Catherine and her siblings used Cincinnati, Ohio real estate, inherited from her father David, mortgages on their plantations, and whatever else they had to support themselves after the war.

[2] When their children were grown, the Kaisers sold the mansion and 73 acres in 1937 to Mr. and Mrs. Swan of New York, who had visited Homewood on a Pilgrimage tour, for $35,000.

[2] She and her husband, who was much younger, spent huge sums modernizing the mansion and expanding the gardens during the last years of the Great Depression.

[2] As it was burning to the ground, Mrs. Swan, with a bottle of whiskey in her hand, slowed the firemen's efforts by ordering them off the property.

[10] The Swans, however, collected $43,000 in damages from five insurance companies as a result of the fire and returned to live in New York.

The old carriage house, which also survived the fire, has been a residence and a clubhouse for the Natchez Country Club.

[2][7] From the cupola and the adjoining widow's walk on top of the mansion, the town of Natchez could be seen in the distance.

[11] A curved stairway with fan shaped steps and a black walnut railing was in the rear of the central hall and connected the first, second and attic floors.