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OLD HATTIESBURG BANK AND TRUST BUILDING

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1905, Robert E. Lee. 111 E. Front St.

Robert Emmett Lee (1870–1925), Hattiesburg’s first professional architect, attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and worked c. 1896–1900 for Gustavus M. Torgerson, designer of Meridian’s Grand Opera House (EM10), before coming to Hattiesburg in 1900. Here he consistently worked in a robust classical style.

This two-story limestone former bank has the look of a gateway or triumphal arch, with two marble Roman Ionic columns set between piers framing the entrance, a popular scheme for banks in the early twentieth century.

At 119 E. Front, Lee’s three-story Odd Fellows Lodge (1907) is an elaborate affair with brick piers beneath cast-stone capitals and tall third-story pedimented windows with sunburst patterns. An early Mississippi example of a concrete-frame “skyscraper,” Lee’s five-story Chicago-style Ross Building (1907; 207 E. Front) has an unusually high ratio of window-to-wall surface for a building of its vintage. After decades of vacancy, it was renovated for apartments in 2013 and its cornice rebuilt.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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S. H. KRESS STORE BUILDING
SAENGER THEATER
U.S. POST OFFICE
FORREST COUNTY COURTHOUSE
HATTIESBURG INTERMODAL CENTER (SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY DEPOT)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OLD HATTIESBURG BANK AND TRUST BUILDING", [Hattiesburg, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW29.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 318-318.

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