- City:
- Bay Springs, MS
- Site Type:
- Penal Facilities, Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Krouse & Brasfield
- Contractor:
- Currie & Corley
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Public Works Administration, project W1208, constructed a two-story Art Deco style jail for the courthouse. A grant of $13,939 was approved toward the total cost of $30,977 6/22/1938. Contract was awarded 9/13/1938 and construction begun 9/22/1938. Architects were Krouse & Brasfield and builder was Currie & Corley. Construction was completed 1/19/1939. The jail and courthouse were destroyed in 1975.
Source notes
Report No. 5, Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Region No. 3, Mississippi. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 105.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory. Old Jasper County Jail. Retrieved August 2019 from www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural
Hinds school work among PWA projects given okeh. (June 25, 1938). Clarion-Ledger, p. 1.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on August 10, 2019.
Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $30,977.00 |
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