
This rigorous neoclassical revival building of red brick rises two stories from a raised basement. Its full-height portico of four unfluted, stone Ionic columns, entablature, abstracted frieze, and paneled balustrade is impressive.
On the next block, Robert E. Lee designed the Masonic Temple (1920; 700 Main) as a stout, pedimented temple with a deep entablature and Doric columns in antis. R. H. Hunt designed the Gothic Revival Main Street Methodist Church (1909–1910; 712 Main) with square corner towers, the taller with a pagoda-like roof. At 723 Main, the tan brick Mediterranean-styled Hattiesburg Cultural Center, originally the Hattiesburg Public Library (1930, E. C. Hearon and Sons), features a curved, split staircase rising to the principal floor’s arched entrance porch.