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CARNEGIE LIBRARY

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1909, R. H. Hunt. 105 W. Madison St.

This is the oldest Carnegie Library and the second-oldest public library in the state. Long and low, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential Prairie Style designs but has tall windows, bracketed eaves, and a formidable front entrance canopy with heavy brackets of a type that suggests Chinese inspiration. The building’s interiors are largely intact, with plaster walls and dark wood trim and a multi-paned skylight recessed into the ceiling of the entrance vestibule.

Writing Credits

Author: 
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, "CARNEGIE LIBRARY", [Houston, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-CH1.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 193-193.

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