- City:
- Starkville, MS
- Site Type:
- Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Johnston and Stevens
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Projects w1209, w1226-1 and w1226-2 constructed buildings on the campus of then Mississippi State College (now Mississippi State University). The projects were part of a 5-year building program from 1934-1939 totaling $1,424,478. Seven faculty apartment buildings and six residences were constructed under the Public Works Administration funded program. The apartment residences for faculty and staff were 2-story structures in the Georgian Revival Style. Some were frame construction and others brick/stucco. At least 3 of the brick structures are extant, and at least 1 of the frame residences. Architect firm was Johnston & Stevens.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory Database. Retrieved September 1, 2019 from
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Starkville&County=Any
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.
State's 5-year building program cost $1,200,000. (Dec. 25, 1938). Clarion-Ledger, p. 7.
Building work set at State. (Aug. 9, 1939). Clarion-Ledger, p. 10.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on September 2, 2019.
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