- City:
- Gulfport, MS
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
Mississippi Project 1102 “undertook a considerable program of improving its waterfront facilities and harbor for small craft, including slips and pier with recreational features, a clubhouse, swimming pool, and tennis courts” (Short & Stanley-Brown, 1939, p. 424). Miss Proj. 1419 provided improvements for “ocean-going vessels consist[ing] of a wharf 45 by 1, 790 feet with three lines of railroad tracks, and the warehouse 122 by 1,760 composed of eight compartments” (p. 425).
Source notes
Short, C. W., & Stanley-Brown, R. (1939). Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration: 1933 to 1939. 424-425.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 3, 2014.
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