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HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN (METHODIST CHILDREN’S HOME)

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1962–1977, Chris Risher Sr. 23rd Ave., east side, north of 25th St.

Chris Risher Sr.’s most iconic project, and one looking as much like an art installation as a building complex, is this facility dedicated to the care of neglected and abused children. On the crown of the sloping site, he arranged side-by-side, five identical, south-facing residential units. Each one is a flat-roofed brick-and-glass box with a cantilevered entrance canopy. To the west of each, there is a steel-framed patio enclosure with a roof sunscreen of steel rods and to the east a brick utility room with a canopy defining a smaller patio. A continuous, bi-level steel canopy on slender piers connects the units along a promenade of more than three hundred feet. Hope Village offices are located across the street in the brick and stone Tudor Revival former residence (c. 1927) at 2433 23rd Avenue.

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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN (METHODIST CHILDREN’S HOME)", [Meridian, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM25.

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Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 223-224.

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