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TRUSTMARK BANK (COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK)

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1969, William F. Cann. 415 N. Magnolia St.

Built to a design by Cann of the Bank Building and Equipment Company, a national design/build firm, this four-story New Formalist building employs classicism to symbolize institutional solidity and tradition. The walls are of long and narrow concrete bricks finished to resemble marble. The three-story monumental arcade wrapping three sides of the rectangular building is carried on tapering concrete columns that flare at their tops to support a heavy cornice. The one-story off-center canopied entrances on the west and south add unexpected asymmetry to the otherwise symmetrical composition.

Writing Credits

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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, "TRUSTMARK BANK (COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK)", [Laurel, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW13.

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Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 308-308.

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