- City:
- Cleveland, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Gymnasiums, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designers:
- Campus Engineer, J. S. Sigler
Description
The 1938-39 Art Moderne Project Miss. 1225 is “…a rare surviving example of a university gymnasium from the period before World War II. …maintains its interior and exterior integrity” (MDAH). The gym was expanded with a rear addition of a second gym in 1947, which was demolished in 2000. Brick veneer was added in 1964, and the building was renovated in 1975-76. It remains in use today, and is prominently located at the front of the campus on Leflore Circle.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory. "Whitfield Gymnasium." Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architecturalSite originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 9, 2014.
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