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LAKE DEPOT

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c. 1890. Brooks St., between Wilkins and Main sts.

Moved slightly south of its original location, this wooden railroad station ( pictured on p. 226) is unique in the state. A compact blend of Queen Anne and Stick Style, it features paneled, textured wall surfaces, a variety of bracket types and sizes, and intersecting hipped and gabled roofs. Originally, the stationmaster occupied the central room lit by a bay window, with waiting rooms for black and white patrons astride it, an early architectural application of Jim Crow segregation laws newly enshrined in the rewritten 1890 Mississippi Constitution.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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ALABAMA AND VICKSBURG RAILROAD DEPOT

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LAKE DEPOT", [Lake, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM30.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 225-225.

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