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BROADMOOR NEIGHBORHOOD

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1925–1950s. Bounded by Kelly and East aves., and Oak Pl.

Gulfport’s first picturesque subdivision, Broadmoor, was laid out in 1925 by engineer E. C. Crocker, who bisected its circular layout with a landscaped parkway, Broadmoor Place. The Mississippi Coast Realty Company, led by S. L. McGlathery, developed the tract. The circle’s intersection with the city grid results in four landscaped triangular mini-parks. Bungalows dominate, but post-World War II ranch houses are common. The Spanish Colonial Revival stuccoed bungalow at 1124 Oak Place (c. 1926) with spiral engaged columns exemplifies a style favored on the Coast. The Craftsman bungalows at 2310 Magnolia Place and 2213 Kelly feature triangular knee braces, carved purlin ends, and exposed rafters.

Gulfport architect Milton B. E. Hill (1917–1979) employed a variety of textures on his ranch house (1949) just outside the neighborhood at 911 S. Wanda Place. The V-plan house pivots around a two-story block, which interrupts the horizontality of the one-story wings. A native of Helena, Arkansas, Hill graduated from Alabama Polytechnic (now Auburn University). He may have been responsible for at least two Broadmoor ranch houses: 1116 Oak Place (c. 1953) and 2305 Magnolia Place (c. 1955).

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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, "BROADMOOR NEIGHBORHOOD", [Gulfport, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC19.

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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, 344-345.

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