Employing a variety of materials, horizontal lines, and interposed volumes in a balanced but asymmetrical composition, this four-story federal building is a classic 1950s interpretation of the International Style. Set upon a dark granite base, the tan brick building’s concrete stringcourses flow around the corners, terminating at the vertical stairwell on the side.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE", [Greenville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR12.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 106-107.
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