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Enterprise, Mississippi’s rustic-style log community house was constructed c. 1935 by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). The building features a porch with shed roof and stone chimney.
Date added: October 26, 2013; Modified: January 1, 2015
The stone veneer facade, one-story stone and brick Community House was constructed with Work Progress Administration funding in 1938. One room of the Community House was designated for a library in 1966. The first known library in the county was… read more
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: December 29, 2014
The original Lincoln County Courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi was remodeled in 1933 by the Civil Works Administration. It was demolished in 1978-1979.
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: December 29, 2014
Newton, Mississippi’s James H. Eason Field, formerly known as O’Keefe Airport, was dedicated November 12, 1934. O’Keefe was instrumental, as a federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) employee, in bringing several CWA-funded airports to Mississippi. The then-cost of the project was… read more
Date added: October 27, 2014; Modified: December 22, 2014
Moss Point, Mississippi’s Charlotte Hyatt Elementary School was constructed during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal funds. The “one-story building with brick and white mortar, cast stone, seven classrooms, an auditorium, a clinic room, an office and a… read more
Date added: March 20, 2013; Modified: December 21, 2014
This mural was painted in 1945 by Thomas Savage in the Eupora, MS post office. He was a farmer from Iowa who excelled in painting farm scenes; in later years he would work as a commercial artist. He did three… read more
Date added: February 16, 2014; Modified: November 21, 2014
“The community house was a common project, with at least seventeen known to survive in the state. The style of building differed from community to community. In Macon, a one story wooden bungalow-style structure was built…” (Gatlin, 2008, p. 5)…. read more
Date added: January 7, 2014; Modified: November 21, 2014
One of 17 community houses constructed in Mississippi during the New Deal, the facility in Winona is still in use and maintained through regular repair, retaining “a high degree of integrity” (Gatlin, 2008). The building is faced with native rock… read more
Date added: October 27, 2014; Modified: October 27, 2014
The Greenwood underpass, or railway bridge cross #300721D, was “built to allow traffic on Main Street to pass under the railroad tracks of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad” ( Greenwood Underpass, 2011). The project also re-routed US 49 and… read more
Date added: March 3, 2014; Modified: October 27, 2014
Mississippi Project 1102 “undertook a considerable program of improving its waterfront facilities and harbor for small craft, including slips and pier with recreational features, a clubhouse, swimming pool, and tennis courts” (Short & Stanley-Brown, 1939, p. 424). Miss Proj. 1419… read more
Date added: February 16, 2014; Modified: October 5, 2014
The small, one-story, red-brick Colonial Revival building was constructed as Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the PWA) Project Miss. 1366-F. It is part of the Macon Historic District. Mississippi architects P. J. Krouse and L. L. Brasfield,… read more
Date added: August 1, 2014; Modified: September 19, 2014
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).
Date added: January 23, 2013; Modified: September 14, 2014
Medium: oil on canvas “The Wedding of Ortez and SaOwana–Christmas 1540 was painted by Joseph Pollet and completed and installed in 1939. The mural depicts the feast given by Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto to honor the first recorded Christian… read more
Date added: August 1, 2014
$107,000 was approved in the WPA project no. 41003 for the Delta Station Forest Tract for fire lanes, roadways, and general improvements. The Experiment Station purpose was experimental work in lowland forest types. Henry Parker, of Grenada, Mississippi was the… read more
Date added: October 10, 2013; Modified: May 11, 2014
The old Winston County Library was the first public libary in Winston County, Mississippi. The Colonial Revival, 1-story building is currently in use as a Girl Scout Hut. “The building is eligible [for Mississippi landmark status] as an intact example… read more