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Date added: November 19, 2013
The vocational building was constructed in Randolph during an expansion of the school in the 1930s. A teacher’s house was also added, and is located behind the vocational building. A plaque on the vocational building shows it was constructed by… read more
Date added: November 3, 2013
The Tudor-style community house was constructed in 1935 by FERA. “A stone-veneered building with false half-timbered gables, very similar to the community houses in Grenada and Winona” (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database Fact Sheet). The… read more
Date added: November 3, 2013
“The Ecru High School FFA/FHA Building was built in 1938 by the National Youth Administration (NYA), a New Deal agency. The NYA was created by executive order in 1935 to provide vocational training to young people while also furnishing a… read more
Date added: October 30, 2013; Modified: October 30, 2013
The original building was built by the WPA between 1938 and 1940. It held 15 classrooms, laboratories, library, and an auditorium. It is currently used as the administration to the Webster County School District. The architect said, “The selection of… read more
Date added: October 28, 2013; Modified: October 28, 2013
Senatobia High School was FEAPWA Project #Miss. 1260, constructed in 1938 in an Art Moderne style. Additions were completed in 1959 and 1965. The auditorium is 1.5-story, and constructed of reinforced concrete and with brick and stone veneer. The entry… read more
Date added: October 8, 2013; Modified: October 8, 2013
The 445-mile parkway follows the general path of the old Natchez Trace, originally a footpath for Native American Choctaw and Chickasaw (Littman). The parkway runs from Natchez, Mississippi, across the northeast corner of Alabama, and into Tennessee. The Northern Terminus… read more
Date added: April 7, 2013; Modified: April 7, 2013
Lucile Blanch (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, & Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) painted “Rural Mississippi-From Early Days to Present” for the Tylertown, Mississippi post office. According to Deborah Purnell (2004), it was “actually a fresco painted directly onto the… read more
Date added: March 25, 2013; Modified: March 25, 2013
The Natchez City Auditorium was Mississippi project # 1350 from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. The 995-seat arena is headed by a large stage, and is designed in a squared-corner horseshoe, with seats on both sides and the… read more
Date added: March 23, 2013; Modified: March 23, 2013
A mural by Henry La Cagnina, created under the Treasury Bureau’s Section of Fine Arts program, was completed and installed in the post office in 1943 at a cost of $700.00. “Harvest” illustrated the important truck farming industry in the… read more
Date added: March 3, 2013; Modified: March 3, 2013
Isidore Toberoff’s mural, “Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil” was completed in 1942. The oil-on-canvas work was completed under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Toberoff was a 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner in art, and while… read more
Date added: February 6, 2013; Modified: February 6, 2013
The New Albany City Hall was designed by Mississippi architect E. L. Malvaney, who designed many modernist buildings in the state. The two-story Art Deco style building (with Art Moderne characteristics) is a Mississippi State Landmark. Joan Embree, 1996, described… read more
Date added: January 23, 2013; Modified: January 23, 2013
The post office contains a mural painted by Stuart R. Purser, “Ginnin’ Cotton.” Purser’s design was the winning design for Mississippi in the 48-State mural competition.
Date added: January 16, 2013; Modified: January 16, 2013
The post office contains a 1941 Section of Fine Arts mural, “Post near Houston, Natchez Trace, 1803” by Byron Burford,Jr.
Date added: August 22, 2012; Modified: August 22, 2012
“New Deal mural entitled “Cotton Plantation” painted in 1942 by Eve Kottgen. It was moved to the current post office in 1998. Due to lack of space (or planning), there was no space in the lobby so the mural was… read more
Date added: July 27, 2012
“Legion State Park, also known as Legion State Park Historic District, is located in the red hill country of Louisville, Mississippi, and area originally inhabited by the Choctaw Indian Nation. It is one of the original Mississippi state parks developed… read more