Delta State University: Whitfield Gymnasium – Cleveland MS

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=architectural

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 9, 2014.

Location Info


Corner of Leflore Circle and Yazoo
Cleveland, Mississippi 38744
Bolivar County

Coordinates: 33.7424757, -90.73478

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