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U.S. COURTHOUSE (INSTITUTE HALL, MEMORIAL HALL)

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1852–1853, Thomas Lewinski; 1921 remodeled, C. Sedgwick Moss; 2008 renovated, Waggonner and Ball. 109 S. Pearl St.

One of two buildings that originally comprised the Natchez Institute, one of Mississippi’s earliest public schools, the courthouse ( pictured on p. 36) is a stuccoed three-bay Classical Revival building with a stepped and paneled parapet and a projecting pedimented frontispiece defined by paired pilasters. Weldon Brothers of Natchez were the contractors, and the masons were Charles Reynolds and James Brown.

Memorial Hall originally featured an upper-floor auditorium and a raised basement with four classrooms entered from a dramatic entrance hall with a pair of matching elliptical staircases. In 1921, World War I veterans renovated the building, changed its name, and installed a stage with a proscenium arch in the auditorium. In 1987, the Historic Natchez Foundation acquired the deteriorated building to prevent its demolition. It was renovated as a federal courthouse in 2008.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "U.S. COURTHOUSE (INSTITUTE HALL, MEMORIAL HALL)", [Natchez, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND30.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 35-36.

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