Ceres Plantation House is one of 10 sites on a list of endangered historic places to be revealed tonight by the Mississippi Heritage Trust.

The 19th century structure will be featured along with sites in Utica and in Jefferson County during a gala event at 7 at Duling School auditorium in downtown Jackson, a release from MHT said this week. Additional sites will be announced during the event, held by the nonprofit about every two years to call attention to sites threatened by deterioration or demolition. Tickets are $60 at the door.

Built in the 1830s by the Flowers family, the house and surrounding land and barns have been coveted by preservationists and eyed for redevelopment or demolition by the Warren County Port Commission since it became part of Ceres Research and Industrial Interplex in 1986.

The two-story, six-bedroom house was built in the 1830s on land granted to Uriah Flowers, according to land records. It was a haven for women and children after the Siege of Vicksburg, then passed down to later generations of the Flowers family. In 1954, it passed to U.G. Flowers Jr. and was renovated most recently in 1979. A restaurant and a plant nursery operated from the house. No commercial activity has been there since the nursery closed in 2007.

Multiple efforts to have the structure declared a Mississippi Landmark have come up empty, including one in 2010 that was denied by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History after eight months of review. In March, the commission voted to move ahead with demolition. No proposals to do so have been approved since the vote.

Rooms added to the house in the last renovation were counted against efforts to landmark the house in the most recent drive and one in 2006. The house retains much of its original character and is significant for its architecture and its history, the release said.

Two other sites named in the release were Holtzclaw Mansion in Utica and Prospect Hill in Jefferson County. The full list will be announced during tonight’s program. Walt Grayson of WLBT 3 will be the master of ceremonies.

The Mississippi Heritage Trust’s mission was founded in 1992 to preserve historic and cultural resources in the state. Other properties spotlighted at the organization’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places event since 1999 include the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, renovated in 2009, the old Irving Hotel in Greenwood, which reopened in 2003 as The Alluvian, and the Walter Anderson Cottage in Ocean Springs, renovated in 2009 after Hurricane Katrina pushed it off its foundation four years earlier.