Mississippi State University: Hull Hall - Starkville MS

City:: Starkville, MS
Site Type:: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Started:: 1937
Completed:: 1938
Artist:: Jackson Stone Company
Designer:: Stevens & Johnston
Contractor:: R. P. Farnsworth & Co
Quality of Information:: Very 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. Hull Hall was constructed 1938 as a 3 story dormitory, in the Georgia Revival style. Architect was Stevens & Johnston, Contractor was R. P. Farnsworth & Co., and Cast stone bas reliefs were by Jackson Stone Company.

Source notes

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.

Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved August 13, 2019 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Starkville&County=Any

State’s 5-Year Building Program Cost $1,200,000. (Dec. 25, 1938). Clarion-Ledger, p. 7.

Architect Changes ‘Face” of College. (May 4, 1949). Clarion-Ledger, p. 4.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on August 13, 2019.