- City:
- Vicksburg, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Designer:
- National Park Service
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Park Museum and Headquarters at the National Military Park inVicksburg MS. the building is currently vacant.
“The 1934-35 PWA allotments provided for new combination administration/museum buildings in five eastern parks: Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Guilford Courthouse, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Morristown.”
“Predictably, those designed by Service architects without knowledge of museum requirements proved ill-suited to their purpose. The Vicksburg building resembled so well an antebellum plantation mansion that a later superintendent converted it to his residence and packed the museum off to utilitarian frame structure elsewhere in the park.”
Source notes
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/curatorship/pdf/3.pdf, Chapter 3, pp 76-77.
Site originally submitted by Gina Logan on April 13, 2023.
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