Mississippi Governor's Mansion

09/29/2025

09/29/2025

This year’s winner of the Christmas at the Mansion Competition is Madden Gray from Philadelphia!

Madden is the owner of MG & Company and has been a part of our florist of the month program for several years.

We’re so excited to work with him to bring our theme “A Season of Success” to life this holiday season!

Stay tuned for more fun announcements regarding Christmas at the Mansion!

09/29/2025

⭐️ STUDENTS and TEACHERS⭐️

As we prepare for Christmas at the Mansion, we’d love to receive ornaments from all of you that represent your school!

These ornaments will be displayed and incorporated into the decorations at the Governor’s Mansion during the holiday season.

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating ‘A Season of Success,” and we can’t wait to see the creativity of our students on display!

For more information, please contact [email protected]. You may also follow the link below to download the form to be submitted with your ornament. All ornaments should be submitted by November 1.🎄

http://bit.ly/4mDkRGx

12/16/2024

We had more than 1000 visitors last Friday night for Christmas by Candlelight. Santa Claus was there, too!

11/21/2024

Holiday Tours
Our tour hours have been gobbled up for the rest of November! The Governor’s Mansion is closed for tours during the week of Thanksgiving as we prepare for Christmas by Candlelight on Friday, Dec. 6 from 4-8PM.

Join us for the annual Christmas By Candlelight Tour on Friday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m! That evening until 8 p.m., the doors of the Mansion are opened to the public for a holiday open house. For more information about Christmas by Candlelight, visit https://www.mdah.ms.gov/candlelight-tour/

A limited number of tours are still available during the month of December. Reservations are required. Go to www.governorsmansion.com or contact the mansion curator at 601-359-6421 or at [email protected] to schedule a tour.

09/19/2024

First Lady of Mississippi Elee Reeves gives WXXV News 25 a tour of the historic Governor's Mansion and the East Garden. To tour the Mansion and East Garden yourself, go to www.msgovernorsmansion.com to request a tour!

On Tuesday, WXXV News 25 took a trip to the Governor’s Mansion in Jackson to visit First Lady Elee Reeves and tour the historic mansion. Reeves was born in Tylertown, MS, and attended Millsaps College, where she was involved in Millsaps Singers and Kappa Delta Sorority. She graduated with a Master...

08/05/2024

New draperies at the Governor's Mansion
For the first time in nearly 50 years, there are drapes on the windows of the state dining room at the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion! Thanks largely to Friends of the Mansion, the gold parlor and dining room now boast new curtains and valances.

To join Friends of the Mansion, please email [email protected]. Friends of the Mansion provides funding for the conservation, preservation, and repair of furnishings in the 1842 historic section of the Mansion.

The previous window treatments in the dining room and gold parlor were installed in 1975. Natchez seamstress Carolyn Clark sewed the curtains and valances from period fabric sourced by Richard Branyan of Lower Lodge Conservation and Museum Services.

Carolyn Clark learned to sew at age nine. In 1974, Elvis’s decorator Rae Goddard taught Mrs. Clark how to sew drapes. “’You’ll never be without a job’” she recalls Mrs. Goddard telling her. This was reassuring as Mrs. Clark was a single mother with three boys. Sure enough, she began her business in 1975 and since then has worked for decorators in California, New York, and Mississippi.

Almost 80 years old, Mrs. Clark says the Governor’s Mansion is her last “big” job. She still enjoys working with beautiful fabrics. “It’s like Christmas” she says about seeing the fabric unrolled for a drapery project. She intends to continue working on smaller projects but wants time to paint and to enjoy her hobby of making dollhouse miniatures.

03/21/2024

It's almost time for our Friends of the Mansion Garden Party on April 18!

To join Friends of the Mansion, please email Ann Beard at [email protected].

We hope you'll join us on April 18 at the Mississippi Governor's Mansion as we work to preserve the history and beauty of this National Historic Landmark.

What is Friends of the Mansion?
Friends of the Mansion ensures the preservation and beautification of the 1842 historic section, which operates as a museum, of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion. To visit, go to www.msgovernorsmansion.com or email [email protected]. Tours are free!

10/10/2023

AmeriCorps members based in Vicksburg, Mississippi, toured the historic Governor’s Mansion and garden this morning. Today caps their month-long deployment to Mississippi. With the United Way of West Central Mississippi, they supported disaster relief, tutored children, and maintained a historic cemetery. Thanks, River 1 team, for your work and for visiting the Mansion today!

08/08/2023

This morning, one of William Nichol's -- architect of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion -- descendants, Angel Nichols, visited the Governor's Mansion. While touring, she Facetimed her brother who is studying architecture. Thanks for stopping by to see us, Angel!

Among William Nichols' (1780-1853) other extant buildings are Mississippi's 1839 statehouse (now the Old Capitol Museum), Gerrard Hall at the University of North Carolina, the Lyceum at the University of Mississippi. Architectural historians consider the Mississippi Governor's Mansion to be one of the finest surviving examples of the Greek Revival style in the United States.

05/22/2023

Visitors can now walk through the East Garden when they reserve a free tour of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion (as weather and maintenance projects permit). Go to msgovernorsmansion.com to reserve a tour.

Mississippi Governor's Mansion docents gathered in the East Garden of the Mansion today for a docent enrichment program. Landscape architect Rick Griffin discussed the landscape plan that he and partner Clifton Egger designed.

Paths of brick and grass lead visitors past Black-eyed Susans and Tractor Seat Plants, under stately Pecan and Willow Oak trees, and towards the Lemonaia, or Lemon House.