The neighborhood at the Old Depot Museum on Levee Street has grown.

Model builder Robin Burr, who has built model replicas of historic Vicksburg homes for the museum, delivered his latest building to the museum Wednesday; a 1/48th scale model of Duff Green Mansion, complete with wrought iron railings and accents and all of the mansion’s 74 windows.

“It took me six months to build it,” Burr said. “I walked around Duff Green taking pictures of all sides and from different viewpoints to make sure I had the dimensions. This is the second model. I was unhappy with the first model because it wasn’t up to my standards, so I tore it up and began again.

“The plastic for the windows, doors and the wrought iron came from model railroad stock.” He pointed to a piece of the black wrought iron rail. “Putting that on was the most difficult part. It came in 4-foot long pieces.”

Burr said Duff Green was the eighth model he has built at the request of museum owner Lamar Roberts, adding he began building the models in 2004.

“It takes more time to build a model of a home than a model of a ship,” Roberts said. “Robin builds the homes and (museum curator) Dave (Benway) builds the ships. I always get the best. I wouldn’t expect anything less.”

Built in 1856 by a local cotton broker, the mansion served as a hospital for Union and Confederate soldiers during the Siege of Vicksburg and later became a soldier’s rest home.

It returned to a home from reconstruction to the depression, and then served as a boys orphanage and was later the Salvation Army Headquarters for more than 50 years.

Duff Green Mansion was purchased and renovated by Harry Sharp in the mid-1980s. It was bought in 2015 by Rick and Harley Caldwell.