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GREENVILLE INN AND SUITES (LEVEE BOARD BUILDINGS)

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1874, 1883. 201 and 211 S. Walnut St.

The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners was chartered in 1877 by the legislature to oversee levee construction and maintenance along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The Levee Board, as it was popularly known, operated from this two-story stuccoed Italianate building with wide modillioned eaves and segmental-arched windows. The adjacent Italianate building with a canted corner facing Walnut and Main began as a bank in 1874 and became a cotton factor’s office before the Levee Board expanded into it in the 1930s. The complex was converted to a hotel in 1998.

Opposite at 216 S. Walnut the former National Guard Armory (1938, Overstreet and Town; 1959 rear addition), now the Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, is a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The appropriately severe Moderne facade features stylized fluted pilasters and cornice. A World War Ilera Quonset hut is at the rear.

Writing Credits

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

MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
GREENVILLE MUNICIPAL COURT (FIRST NATIONAL BANK)
U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE
ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
WASHINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "GREENVILLE INN AND SUITES (LEVEE BOARD BUILDINGS)", [Greenville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR15.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 107-108.

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