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CATHEDRAL OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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1902, Theodore Brune. 870 Howard Ave.

In the Coast’s most ambitious Gothic Revival building, the brick church’s gabled facade has a square four-story clock tower at one corner and a prominent central portal that reaches up to a rose window set within a pointed arch. Local builder Charles H. Owen supervised construction for contractor J. F. Barnes. The tall three-aisled nave’s ribbed vaults spring from clustered columns. The terrazzo floor was laid in 1942 by personnel from the nearby Keesler Field.

Behind the church, the former Sacred Heart Academy (now Mercy Cross High School), designed by John C. Collins and built in 1933 by the Collins Brothers Contracting Company, is an eclectic two-story red brick building with stone trim. Collins also designed the two-story rectory (1974) next door.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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MARDI GRAS MUSEUM (MAGNOLIA HOTEL)
BILOXI CITY HALL (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE))
BEAU RIVAGE RESORT AND CASINO
DR. GILBERT MASON CLINIC
BILOXI LIGHTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CATHEDRAL OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY", [Biloxi, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC26.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 349-349.

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