Robert Smith House (Bontura)

The Smith – Bontura – Evans House at 107 South Broadway Street is a historic home and business built by Robert D. Smith, a free African American who built the combined building for his livery business and a Greek Revival residence between 1851 and 1858. 

Like William Johnson, Robert Smith live in pre-civil war Natchez as part of the largest community of free people of color in the state of Mississippi. This largely middle-class community provided respectable jobs for barbers, carriage drivers, brick masons, seamstresses, and bakers.