On its partially wooded site with some fifteen ponds, this fish hatchery produces over five million fish per year, which are used for restocking stressed environments. The hatchery is named for U.S. Congressman John Allen, who advocated in Washington for its location in Tupelo. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the facility, including a clapboarded Superintendent’s House designed by A. E. Hindeman in a hybrid Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style, which is rare in a town that lost most of its turn-of-the-twentieth-century buildings to the 1936 tornado. Hindeman applied wooden shingles in the two gables, on the corner tower, and at the base of the second-floor porch. He employed multiple pots on the tall brick chimneys and elaborate lattice brickwork to shield the crawl space.