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LOUIS J. PIERNAS HOUSE

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c. 1890. 202 S. Toulme St.

This house typifies the side-hall shotgun house form: one room wide and four rooms deep, with the primary entrance at the narrow end and with a gallery to the side serving as an outdoor passageway and connected to each room by French doors. Machine-made ornament includes scalloped bargeboards, punched brackets, and decorative shingles. Louis J. Peirnas, born a free person of color, became a barber and school trustee and served as chairman of the Hancock County Republican Party for over six decades.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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HANCOCK COUNTY COURTHOUSE
100 MEN D.B.A. HALL
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD DEPOT
OUR LADY OF THE GULF CATHOLIC CHURCH
DOWNTOWN BAY ST. LOUIS

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LOUIS J. PIERNAS HOUSE", [Bay St. Louis, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC3.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 335-335.

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