N. W. Overstreet had been practicing in Mississippi for over forty years when his firm designed this flat-roofed modern interpretation of a classical temple pavilion. It is a heterogeneous combination of Roman brick, veined marble, aluminum storefront with glass and enameled-metal panels, and cylindrical concrete columns employed stoa-like along the front of the building and at its east portico.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "TIPPAH ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION", [Ripley, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NE4.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 161-161.
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