City: Tallahassee   County: Leon   Year: 1969
Location: Rankin Avenue on grounds of Tallahassee Museum of History & Natural Science

Former home of Catherine Daingerfield Willis, great-grandniece of George Washington and widow of Archille Murat, Prince of Naples and nephew of Napoleon. During the Second French Empire she was recognized as a princess and financially assisted by Napoleon III, whose court she visited. She lived in this house from 1854 until shortly before her death, on August 6, 1867. The house, moved to this site in 1967 from its original location on the Jackson Bluff Road, is an excellent example of indigenous Southern architecture.

1990s Photo of Bellevue at the Tallahassee Museum

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ca1901 Photo of Bellevue at original location

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