c. 1798; later additions; 1970s restored, Koch and Wilson. 613 Jefferson St.
Richard King acquired this property in 1798 and received his first tavern license in 1799. Today, his tavern is one of the city’s oldest buildings, displaying the form and details of early Natchez architecture in its side-gabled roof, exterior brick chimney, beaded siding, chamfered gallery posts, board-and-batten doors, and interior walls finished in horizontal tongue-and-groove boards. It was enlarged by an early one-story single-bay addition on the east side. Still later, a raised basement was built beneath the tavern after a street leveling project cut through the hill on which it stood. In 1970, the Pilgrimage Garden Club acquired and subsequently restored King’s Tavern to its original function, a use continued by subsequent owners.