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MUNICIPAL BUILDING (U.S. POST OFFICE)

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1910, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 300 E. Broad St.

This two-story, red brick and terra-cotta Renaissance Revival former post office features a central entrance loggia with Corinthian columns and groin vaults. At 510 E. Broad, the former Carnegie Library (1915; W. H. Floyd, with M. M. Alsop), with red brick walls and a deep, wooden modillioned cornice, now houses the Chamber of Commerce.

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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MUNICIPAL BUILDING (U.S. POST OFFICE)", [West Point, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR12.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 178-178.

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