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MCCOMB FIRE STATION NO. 1

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1928, J. Howard Ryan. 121 3rd St.

McComb’s red brick fire station with its vaguely Italianate features outshines its neighboring city hall. A square tower with faceted corners and blind arches is attached to the side of the main block, which is decorated with brackets in its gable front. Two pairs of round-arched windows open onto a shallow, iron balcony on the second story.

Xavier A. Kramer designed the adjacent residential-scaled city hall (1914; 115 3rd), a Colonial Revival design with a front porch, low-pitched roof, hipped dormer, and bracketed eaves. Nearby, the one-story, red brick Colonial Revival former Pike County Health Center (1938; 122 S. Broadway Street), with its pedimented central entrance, is now used for city offices. Designed by James Gamble Rogers of New York City, it was built as a gift from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, a philanthropy that focused in the 1930s on establishing public health clinics in small towns around the country.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

J. J. WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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HIGGINS MIDDLE SCHOOL (BURGLUND HIGH SCHOOL)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MCCOMB FIRE STATION NO. 1", [McComb, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-SC17.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 296-297.

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