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LAWRENCE COUNTY CIVIC CENTER (MONTICELLO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL)

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1926, James M. Spain. 125 E. Broad St.

Marking the first major school consolidation effort in the county, this two-story tan brick structure built by local contractor W. W. Easley Sr. fuses Mediterranean and Craftsman features in a hipped-roofed five-part composition dominated by a central entrance portico and enlivened by decorative window mullions. This is one of Spain’s earliest known designs, but he had already spent two decades as a Mississippi educator and superintendent of schools before receiving architectural degrees from Mississippi A&M and Columbia University. In the early 1920s, he worked for N. W. Overstreet, whose preference for the Prairie Style and Craftsman features can be seen here. The school closed in 1987, but the community rallied to reopen it in the 1990s for civic and cultural use.

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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, "LAWRENCE COUNTY CIVIC CENTER (MONTICELLO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL)", [Monticello, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW4.

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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, 303-303.

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