• Clarksdale Civic Auditorium - Clarksdale MS
    The Clarksdale Civic Auditorium was designed by Jackson architect E. L. Malvaney and built as a WPA project in 1939. The auditorium is a 1500 seating capacity designed in the Art Moderne style. A rear addition for the National Guard Armory was added in 1944. The walls are "poured concrete" and the front facade includes a bas relief "above a ribbon of 2/2 horizontal awning metal windows (Wright, Baughn, & Gatline, 2009). The two front entrances (one at each end of the building) are on canted walls, have rounded corners and fluted columns typical of Art Moderne. A band of glass...
  • Oakhurst and Elizabeth Dorr Schools Arcade Sidewalks - Clarksdale MS
    At a cost of approximately $6,000, "...an extensive arcade system of walkways" was completed at the two schools in Clarksdale (Arcade sidewalks, p. 1).
  • Second Street Bridge - Clarksdale MS
    The Second Street bridge over the Sunflower River was constructed in 1936 as Public Works Administration project W1051. Pigford Brothers of Meridian, Mississippi constructed the bridge. The bridge was a modern concrete bridge, 500 feet long, 30 feet wide, and with a 5-foot sidewalks on each side of the roadway. It had "more architectural detailing" (Sunflower Bridge to be completed August 15, p. 1) than the Tenth Street Bridge, also constructed by Pigford a few years earlier. Twelve 500-candlepower electric lamps lighted the bridge. The project employed 50 local men. Clarksdale City Engineer Walter Bobo and Coahoma County Engineer Ben...