Description
Bayou Auguste Homes for African Americans was completed 1941 in the 600 block of Roy Street. John Thomas Collins was supervising architect and construction was by Pittman Brothers.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Bayou Auguste Homes. Retrieved October 26, 2019 from: https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Biloxi&County=Any
Currie & Corley are low bidders. (Nov. 14, 1940). Biloxi Daily Herald, p. 1, 11.
Housing work is beginning. (Feb. 4, 1941). Clarion-Ledger, p. 2.
Housing Authority of Biloxi offers its bonds for sale. (Jun 3, 1941). Biloxi Daily Herald, p. 5
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 28, 2019.
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