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THE GROVE

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William Nichols could hardly have imagined that this tract northeast of his original campus would become one of Mississippi’s most celebrated outdoor spaces. Now known as The Grove because of the shady oaks, elms, and magnolias, it was set aside for recreation in the 1890s and on class days today is a quiet landscape for student perambulations. In the 1950s, football fans began to gather here before games at nearby Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, and this tradition has made The Grove one of the country’s premier venues for pregame tailgating, comparable in its atmosphere of spontaneous community to another Mississippi socio-architectural phenomenon: the Neshoba County Fair (see EM4). Instead of fairground cabins, there are tents galore, and inside them the decor ranges from rustic to idiosyncratic to gala.

Writing Credits

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

BARNARD OBSERVATORY
VENTRESS HALL
Barnard Observatory
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "THE GROVE", [University, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC25.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 156-156.

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