Proposals to demolish the Ceres Plantation House will be drawn up and published this week — nearly a year after the Warren County Port Commission voted to do so.

Executive director Wayne Mansfield told the five-member panel Tuesday the plan to “take proposals on the house” soon. A legal ad to demolish the 19th century structure should be crafted “by this week” and involves getting rid of the house, barns and all fencing, Mansfield said.

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

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. The commission voted 11 months ago 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.

Last April, the house was placed on a list of 10 endangered historic places by the Mississippi Heritage Trust, a Jackson-based nonprofit that aims to preserve historic and cultural resources in the state.