Among the state’s most refined Italian Renaissance Revival buildings is this three-story, limestone-clad edifice. The Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Association, founded in 1871, constructed a building (by William Stanton) on this site in 1892, but after it burned in 1915, Weiss of New Orleans designed the new club. The rectangular building is fronted by a semicircular portico with round arches, a blind arcade of pointed Venetian arches, and a balustrade. A similar but larger blind arcade runs beneath the cornice. Inside, the building contains a swimming pool, a magnificent cove-ceilinged ballroom, a dining room, and a wood-paneled library, and it is richly finished throughout with fine woodwork and stained glass.
Following a steep decrease in Vicksburg’s Jewish population after World War II, the city bought the building around 1970 for use as a police station. Now privately owned and restored, the building serves as an event space.