Delta State University: Roberts Memorial Library – Cleveland MS

City:
Cleveland, MS

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Completed:
1939

Designer:
R. W. Naef

Contractor:
I. C. Garber & Son

Description

The 1939 PWA library constructed at Delta State Teachers College (now Delta State University) was designed in an Italian Renaissance/Mediterranean style. It was used as the library until 1968, and has been used as the Fielding Wright Art Center since then. A rear addition was added in 1954, another addition in 1970, and the building was renovated in 1978.

Source notes

Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database. "(Old) Library [Fielding Wright Art Center]." Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=facts Gunn, J. W., & Castle, G. C. (1980). A Pictorial History of Delta State University. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.

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

Location Info


Delta State University
Cleveland, MS 38774

Location notes: Location marker approximate.

Coordinates: 33.7454012, -90.73546110000001

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