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OCEAN SPRINGS COMMUNITY HOUSE AND WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM

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1950; 1991, Eley Associates, with Ed Pickard; 2012–2013, Cowart Architects. 510 Washington Ave.

Walter Anderson’s panoramic mural (1951) on the interior walls of the cinder-block Ocean Springs Community Center was the “last attempt to share his vision with the world,” according to his daughter. On one long wall, Anderson imagined the seventeenth-century landing of the French; on the other, he depicted what he called the “Seven Climates,” a fanciful and energetic representation of the Gulf Coast’s natural world. When Eley Associates and Ed Pickard built the Walter Anderson Museum (1991), they made the community center one terminus of a skylit transverse hallway and placed Anderson’s mural-filled “Little Room,” moved here from his Shearwater cottage (GC39), at the other end. At right angles to and astride the hallway they set gable-roofed galleries, comparable to the modest, utilitarian structures at Shearwater Pottery. Cowart Architects added the entrance pavilion and enclosed two courtyards in 2012–2013.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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MARY C. O’KEEFE CULTURAL CENTER (OCEAN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL)
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W. C. GRYDER HOUSE
LOVERS LANE ADDITION
COTTAGE SQUARE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OCEAN SPRINGS COMMUNITY HOUSE AND WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM", [Ocean Springs, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC37.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 355-356.

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