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BILOXI CITY HALL (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE))

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1905–1908, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 140 Lameuse St.

Four monumental Corinthian columns on a first-story round-arched arcade front the upper two stories of this Beaux-Arts classical steel-framed, marble-clad building. After the federal government moved in 1960 to a new building by James T. Canizaro at 135 Main Street, architects John T. and Leonard A. Collins converted this one into a city hall.

Nearby Peoples Bank (1914; 152 Lameuse) displays a freer form of classicism with its two-story tan brick facade and curved corner. Both buildings contrast with the picturesque former Peoples Bank (1896, William T. Harkness; 750 Howard Avenue), which has a round-arched corner entrance beneath an oriel turret. At 124 Lameuse, grand stairs and a spiral-columned frontispiece impart monumentality to the Spanish Colonial Revival former Biloxi Public Library (1925, Carl E. Matthes).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

MARDI GRAS MUSEUM (MAGNOLIA HOTEL)
CATHEDRAL OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
BEAU RIVAGE RESORT AND CASINO
DR. GILBERT MASON CLINIC
BILOXI LIGHTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "BILOXI CITY HALL (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE))", [Biloxi, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC24.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 348-348.

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