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SHAW HIGH SCHOOL

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1923, N. W. Overstreet; 1940, Overstreet and Town. 200 Jefferson Blvd.

The combination of Prairie Style horizontality with Italian Renaissance details as in this tan brick school was a hallmark of Overstreet’s early career. Cast concrete stringcourses flow from the central three-story section with its hipped roof and deep bracketed eaves to the flanking flat-roofed two-story wings, interrupted only by the two entrances with Doric porticos and decorated vertical panels. The school contained a two-story auditorium, a lunchroom, a library, and fourteen classrooms.

Overstreet, with Town, returned in 1940 for a WPA-funded gymnasium behind the administration building. The symmetrical Moderne design focuses on a centered faceted portico of abstracted Doric pilasters sheltering two entrances.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "SHAW HIGH SCHOOL", [Shaw, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR26.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 113-114.

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