- City:
- Amory, MS
- Site Type:
- Armories, Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1941
- Designers:
- A. H. Town, N. W. Overstreet
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration financed the construction of a national guard armory and rifle range for Amory. Architects N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town designed the building, “expected to exceed $56,000 and take 12 months” (Daily Clarion-Ledger, Oct. 6, 1940, p. 5). The average number of workers for the project was 44. In 2002, the building was named a Mississippi Landmark.
Source notes
Old National Guard Armory, Amory. Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural
"Amory Studies Armory Plans." (Feb. 22, 1940). Daily Clarion-Ledger, p. 4.
"Amory to Have Work." (Oct. 6, 1940). Daily Clarion-Ledger, p. 5.
City of Armory (https://www.cityofamoryms.com/amory-proud/old-armory/), accessed December 22, 2017.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 22, 2017.
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