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OLD NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY

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1938, Overstreet and Town. Main St. at Olive St.

Built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding, this Moderne design, published as a “model armory” in Architectural Concrete (1941), was duplicated in at least four other towns: Aberdeen, Amory, Starkville, and Greenwood. By the late 1930s, monolithic concrete, usually rubbed smooth to emphasize volume, had become Overstreet and Town’s signature. A low-relief stylized eagle hovers over the deeply recessed entrance, and the curved barrel-roof of the drill hall behind contrasts with the incised horizontal lines of the front office wing.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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FRANKLIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
CLEAR SPRINGS RECREATION AREA PICNIC PAVILION, HOMOCHITTO NATIONAL FOREST

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OLD NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY", [Meadville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND14.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 27-27.

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