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B. B. KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER

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c. 1920; 2008 addition, Canizaro Cawthon Davis. 400 2nd St.

In front of the museum is the hipped-roofed brick cotton gin, built as the Gilmore Ginnery, where Riley B. King worked before he became famous as blues musician B. B. King. A shed-roofed porch across the front remains, but on the west side, the gabled drive-through for unloading cotton has been removed. In 2008, the long-vacant building was renovated as a meeting and exhibition space for the museum, which stretches behind the gin on a perpendicular axis. Wood planks and corrugated metal clad the addition, recalling the horizontal aesthetic and industrial texture of the standardized metal cotton gins of the 1930s and later.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "B. B. KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER", [Indianola, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR63.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 137-137.

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