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DEDWYLER MEMORIAL BUILDING (BOLIVAR COUNTY HEALTH CENTER)

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1949–1950, N. W. Overstreet and Associates. 201 S. Court St.

Overstreet’s International Style design, published in Architectural Record (October 1951), emphasizes horizontality with alternating bands of smooth brick and concrete walls and steel-framed windows, modest entrances, and a flat roof. A concrete stringcourse that runs below the windows of the two-story section ties into the roof of the one-story section, unifying both. The building was one of scores built around the state under the 1946 Hill-Burton Act, which established a federal-state partnership to launch public health programs in every county in the nation.

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, "DEDWYLER MEMORIAL BUILDING (BOLIVAR COUNTY HEALTH CENTER)", [Cleveland, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR28.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 115-115.

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